Hi Edward, this is besides the main point but make sure you create pg dumps without the analytics tables, and instead let DHIS 2 re-generate the analytics tables (which is faster as indexing is run in parallel).
pg_dump -T analytics* regards, Lars On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Edward Robinson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bob, apologies, it’s running on this hardware: > > http://www.dell.com/support/home/ht/en/htbsdt1/product- > support/servicetag/d2fvfx1/configuration > > A bit dated, but definitely not a hardware error given the speedy / > successful restore on Windows. > > Regards > > Ed > > > > *From:* Bob Jolliffe [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, 15 July 2017 3:02 PM > *To:* Edward Robinson <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Knut Staring <[email protected]>; dhis2-users < > [email protected]>; Hannan Khan <[email protected]> > *Subject:* RE: [Dhis2-users] Major speed issue with pg_restore > > > > Ed you never answered my earlier question about the hardware you were > running on? > > > > On 15 Jul 2017 6:40 p.m., "Edward Robinson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sorry for this slow response, time has not been on my side 😊 > Also, thanks Bob, Knut and Hannan for your responses. > > So to fill everyone in, I went through postgres.conf with a fine toothed > comb. @ Bob, Shared buffers were set to 3200 though I'd set them to 1600 > for the restore as per this article's suggestions: > http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/09/settings-for-fast-pgrestore.html > Overall I'm convinced the PGSQL environment had nothing to do with the > issue... what I had suspect is that the combination of Ubuntu 16.04 and our > hardware was not a good match. I suspect the SATA channel in particular > was the bottleneck. > To prove a point (I have two identical machines), I loaded Win Server 2012 > R2 and and installed PGSQL 9.5.5 on the box and, without so much as > tweaking a single file, I restored the dump within 50 minutes. We're > likely upgrading the platform soon so I'm not going to break my back > troubleshooting what is likely an issue that won't be there in 6 months > time. Dell didn't include Debian or Ubuntu on their list of supported OS > for the hardware combination, though I have no reason to believe it > couldn't work with a little effort and a bit of old school compiling, I > just don't have the luxury of time to fiddle. It worked well with 12.04 > out of the box. > I just thought I'd post this in case anyone else was having similar > trouble - if you've double checked the configs, it's quite possibly a lower > level issue. > Cheers! > Ed > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Lars Helge Øverland Lead developer, DHIS 2 University of Oslo Skype: larshelgeoverland [email protected] http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
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