[PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Schroeder
PostgreSQL to use as much RAM as it requires without swapping. What can I do to force the system to allow PostgreSQL to do this? Regards, Kevin Schroeder ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an a

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
- Original Message - From: "Matt Casters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris Kevin Schroeder wrote: It looks to me like you are using no (device or file) swap at all, and have 1.3G of real memory free,

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris Kevin Schroeder wrote: It looks to me like you are using no (device or file) swap at all, and have 1.3G of real memory free, so could in fact give Postgres more of it :-) Indee

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
Stange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris Mark Kirkwood wrote: Kevin Schroeder wrote: Ignoring the fact that the sort and vacuum numbers are really h

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
r PostgreSQL to be swapped unless that free memory is Solaris caching files in RAM. Kevin - Original Message - From: "Greg Spiegelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, Januar

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
Maybe, I'm just seeing a problem where none exists. I ran sar -w 3 100 and I actually did not see any swap activity despite the fact that I've got 500+MB of swap file being used. Kevin - Original Message - From: "Alan Stange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kev

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
-- From: "Alan Stange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris Kevin Schroeder wrote: I suspect that the memory is being used to cache files as well

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
used, 2988840k available Kevin - Original Message - From: "Alan Stange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris Kevin Schroeder wrote: I may

Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Schroeder
al Message - From: "Matt Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris This page may be of use: http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/monthly/2003/02/solaris

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin Schroeder
That would be something that I'd like to see. Being new to PostgreSQL some of the basics of tuning the database were a little hard to find. The reason people go with MySQL is because it's fast and easy to use. That's why I had been using it for years. Then when a problem came along and I couldn

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin Schroeder
My goodness people!! If you are just going to bash people who are trying to learn PostgreSQL then you have no chance of ever getting new people using it! Cut out this crap and do what this list is meant to do, which is, I'm assuming, helping people figure out why their installations aren't runnin