Re: [PERFORM] sequence scan on PK

2005-05-08 Thread Grega Bremec
ally would prefer to look at that aspect of optimizer's understanding of data before anything else. Hope this helps. Regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCfvizfu4IwuB3+XoRAhI1AJ92uhoh0u9q7

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping and Kernel 2.6

2005-05-15 Thread Grega Bremec
han it needs to be by forcing pages of active memory in and out? :) Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCh8XHfu4IwuB3+XoRAicxAJwI0FzZIpXpxlJlZMXVJUJaqdj0EgCfRNuw Dr58jtIg

Re: [PERFORM] 'Fastest' PC's are slowest in the house

2005-06-01 Thread Grega Bremec
n of PostgreSQL is a new product and not widely used in production environments, so there is not much expertise yet in the specifics of keeping it performant, stable and most of all, how to tackle things after the worst has happened. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot

Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem

2005-06-08 Thread Grega Bremec
lp preventing unnecessary work performed by the disk and eliminating contention for the bandwidth of the transport subsystem. This can be achieved by improving internal organization of the filesystem to better suite the requirements of a typical database workload, and eliminating the (undesired part

Re: [PERFORM] JFS fastest filesystem for PostgreSQL?

2005-07-14 Thread Grega Bremec
ved jfs support from their admin tooling due to technical problems with jfs (http://your-local-suse-mirror/.../suse/i386/9.3/docu/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#14) I'm curious as to what this means - did they have problems integrating it into their toolchain or are there actual problems going on in jf

Re: [PERFORM] Read only transactions - Commit or Rollback

2005-12-20 Thread Grega Bremec
ns, because there are none. | | postgres needs to schedule the writing transactions with the reading | ones, anyway. | | But I am not that performance profession anyway ;-) Hello, Marcus, Nörder, list. What about isolation? For several dependent calculations, MVCC doesn't happen a bit wi

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL to host e-mail?

2007-01-04 Thread Grega Bremec
mail store using PostgreSQL as a backend, and has since evolved to a bit more than just that, it seems. Perhaps it could be of help to you while building your system, and I'm sure the people at Oryx will be glad to hear from you while, and after you've built your system. Kind regards,

Re: [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-09 Thread Grega Bremec
O bandwidth your standard SATA or SCSI controller comes with, though. If you're careful about that and handle hotplug sufficiently, you're probably never going to notice you're not running on metal. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP

Re: [PERFORM] sql-bench

2006-09-14 Thread Grega Bremec
ick being, mysqldump will be quite explicit in CREATE TABLE statements, so a vi(1) and a regular expression will probably be needed. Kind regards, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-07 Thread Grega Bremec
e system image across the servers in a cluster". Now, if both goals can be achieved in one go, hell, I'm willing to try it out myself in an attempt to extract off of it, some performance indicators that could be compared to other database performance tests sent to both this and the

Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-07 Thread Grega Bremec
mising to me, but trial, I think, is the best test. The question does spring up though, that Steve raised in another post - just for the record, what POSIX semantics can a postmaster live without in a filesystem? Cheers, -- Grega Bremec Senior Administrator Noviforum Ltd., Software & Media http://www.noviforum.si/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-22 Thread Grega Bremec
nchmarks as I didn't really get into how CPU- and memory-intensive the refresh functions are in these, so as I said - let's keep it a reference. Cheers, -- Grega Bremec Senior Administrator Noviforum Ltd., Software & Media http://www.noviforum.si/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-05-06 Thread Grega Bremec
of 1.5.0 on x86_64 so far, but it is too unstable for any kind of serious work. Cheers, -- Grega Bremec Senior Administrator Noviforum Ltd., Software & Media http://www.noviforum.si/ pgpNaspEVJ49h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] Quad processor options

2004-05-11 Thread Grega Bremec
giving both improved performance and correct functionality in the event of a hotswap taking place. Hope this helped, -- Grega Bremec Senior Administrator Noviforum Ltd., Software & Media http://www.noviforum.si/ pgptjSeTHjtN2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] NAS, SAN or any alternate solution ?

2004-07-20 Thread Grega Bremec
e, will mostly ensure that even the largest amount of data that could fit into a hard disk cache of the entire array (96MB) will still be available in the controller cache after a power failure, for it to be re-checked and ensured it is properly written. Hope this helps, -- Grega Bremec Se

Re: [PERFORM] NAS, SAN or any alternate solution ?

2004-07-20 Thread Grega Bremec
n mentioned > before. > Correction, EUR500 and EUR1000, VAT not included. :) Sorry for the mix-up. -- Grega Bremec Senior Administrator Noviforum Ltd., Software & Media http://www.noviforum.si/ pgpLKhS3Qk0se.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] high load caused by I/O - a hint

2004-08-18 Thread Grega Bremec
it's being developed actively, it does a whole lot more than APM (that was really only about power management), and last but not least, I've been using it for four years on over fifty SMP machines and I never ever had a problem beyond the scope of what noidle could fix (knocks-on-wood). :)

Re: [PERFORM] \d output to a file

2004-12-15 Thread Grega Bremec
the script to do that. Just supply those arguments in places where the "psql" command is used. Hope this helped, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net pgpTPZRwRibTV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] PG Logging is Slow

2004-12-19 Thread Grega Bremec
on would be to turn off syslog logging completely and let postmaster take care of the log on its own, which may or may not be possible for you, depending on the policy in effect (remote logging, etc.). Hope this helped, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net pgpjQ91yejeKo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware purchase question

2005-01-03 Thread Grega Bremec
s moment, as it happens to be 2AM, I had a couple of beers (my friend's birthday's due) and I'm dying to get some sleep. :) HTH, cheers, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net pgp3e62chGpdT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL?

2005-01-11 Thread Grega Bremec
ound, which might be the case, as he is looking for a machine that's strong on the CPU side, that may be the "too much" bit. Of course, if Opteron is being chosen for the increase in the amount of memory it can address, this is not the issue. HTH, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net pgpte0vXuMyG4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

2003-07-05 Thread Grega Bremec
al property of Brian's clients. > > over and out. I CC'd this post over to you, Brian, 'cause this signoff made me rather unsure as to whether or not you're still on the list. Hope you don't mind. Sincerely, -- Grega Bremec System Administration & Dev

Re: [PERFORM] Linux filesystem shootout

2003-10-09 Thread Grega Bremec
n't forget - the address is http://fsbench.netnation.com/ :) Cheers, -- Grega Bremec Sistemska administracija in podpora grega.bremec-at-noviforum.si http://najdi.si/ http://www.noviforum.si/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PERFORM] Linux filesystem shootout

2003-10-09 Thread Grega Bremec
I should at least read the URLs before re-posting info. My bad, I'm utterly sorry about this... :-( Cheers, -- Grega Bremec Sistemska administracija in podpora grega.bremec-at-noviforum.si http://najdi.si/ http://www.noviforum.si/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature