On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:


On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Thomas Burns wrote:

our database literally takes 8 times longer on the x4200 as it does on OS X (the x4200 hardware should be considerably faster -- it has better

for a restore like this, bump up the value of checkpoint_segments to some large value (I use 256 -- but I have a dedicated partition for the pg_xlog directory which gets big).

will give that a shot


also, the normal tuning of the shared memory settings apply. how much RAM do you have and what kind of disks are you using?

I have 50000 shared buffers and 10000 temp buffers (the machine has 16G ram). The disks are new/fast SCSI drives




Thomas E. Burns
Co-Founder/CTO, Schoolloop.com
http://www.schoolloop.com
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