Hi Mischa,
You probably need to determine whether the bottleneck is cpu or disk (should be
easy enough!)
Having said that, assuming your application is insert/update intensive I would
recommend:
- mount the ufs filesystems Pg uses *without* logging
- use postgresql.conf setting
Mischa Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our product (Sophos PureMessage) runs on a Postgres database.
Some of our Solaris customers have Oracle licenses, and they've
commented on the performance difference between Oracle and Postgresql
on such boxes. In-house, we've noticed the 2:1
Mischa Sandberg wrote:
In the meantime, what I gather from browsing mail archives is that
postgresql on Solaris seems to get hung up on IO rather than CPU.
Well, people more knowledgeable in the secrets of postgres seem
confident that this is not your problem. Fortunetly, however, there is a
Mischa Sandberg wrote:
In the meantime, what I gather from browsing mail archives is that
postgresql on Solaris seems to get hung up on IO rather than CPU.
Furthermore, I notice that Oracle and now MySQL use directio to bypass
the system cache, when doing heavy writes to the disk; and Postgresql
