Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Merlin Moncure Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 6:04 PM To: Thomas Kellerer Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: Exactly, if turning off fsync gives me 100 commits/sec then I know where my bottleneck is and I can attack it. Keep in mind though that I already turned off synchronous commit -- *really* dangerous -- and it didn't

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: Exactly, if turning off fsync gives me 100 commits/sec then I know where my bottleneck is and I can attack it. Keep in mind though

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Andy Colson
On 5/1/2012 8:06 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Lesjawal...@cantor.com wrote: Exactly, if turning off fsync gives me 100 commits/sec then I know where my bottleneck is and I can attack it. Keep in mind though that I already turned off synchronous

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: SSD is OCZ-VERTEX3 MI. Controller is LSI SAS2 2008 Falcon. I'm working on installing EDB. Then I can give you some I/O numbers. It looks like the ssd doesn't have a nv cache and the raid card is a simple sas hba

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Kellerer; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: SSD is OCZ-VERTEX3 MI. Controller is LSI SAS2 2008 Falcon. I'm working on installing EDB. Then I can give you some I/O numbers

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% performance increase. Turning off fsck made it an order of magnitude better. I'm now peaking at over 400 commits per second. Does that sound right?

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Walker, James Les wrote on 01.05.2012 16:44: I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% performance increase. What exactly is the enterprisedb distribution? Are you talking about the the Advanced Server? I would be very surprised if the code base would differ so

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Kellerer Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:00 PM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows Walker, James Les wrote on 01.05.2012 16:44: I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% performance increase. What exactly

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
[mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Walker, James Les Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 3:14 PM To: 'Thomas Kellerer'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows Yes. I didn't know the proper vernacular :-) It is very likely that the default

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Andy Colson
On 4/30/2012 8:49 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: I’m trying to benchmark Postgres vs. several other databases on my workstation. My workstation is running 64 bit Windows 7. It has 12 gb of RAM and a W3550 @ 3 Ghz. I installed Postgres 9.1 using the windows installer. The data directory is on a

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Walker, James Les jawal...@cantor.com wrote: I’m trying to benchmark Postgres vs. several other databases on my workstation. My workstation is running 64 bit Windows 7. It has 12 gb of RAM and a W3550 @ 3 Ghz. I installed Postgres 9.1 using the windows

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Merlin Moncure wrote on 30.04.2012 23:43: Trying turning off fsync in postgrsql.conf to be sure. This is a dangerous advise. Turning off fsync can potentially corrupt the database in case of a system failure (e.g. power outage). -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: Merlin Moncure wrote on 30.04.2012 23:43: Trying turning off fsync in postgrsql.conf to be sure. This is a dangerous advise. Turning off fsync can potentially corrupt the database in case of a system failure (e.g.