RE: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-18 Thread Niblett, David A
om: Paul J Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:08 AM To: DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc Niblett, David A wrote: > As for the dbmail-util, I would love not to run that part each night, > but I thought that was rec

Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-18 Thread Paul J Stevens
Niblett, David A wrote: > As for the dbmail-util, I would love not to run that part each > night, but I thought that was recommended. Maybe Paul or one > of the other developers could shed some light on the recommended > dbmail-util schedule. I checked my logs and I've never had a > single mess

Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Niblett, David A wrote: Wow, then I'm completely lost looking at your numbers. I set my shmall and shmmax to 805306368, so that the DB (which is the only thing using memory on the box) could have 800M of shared RAM. Am I crazy here? PostgreSQL uses it's shared buffers for some internal ope

RE: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Niblett, David A
blett | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ -Original Message- From: Jesse Norell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:34 PM To: DBMail m

RE: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Jesse Norell
Hello, The postgres setup I'm referring here is the same that Dave Logan replied about earlier, fyi. We have no postgres experts on staff, just Dave and I, and we do what we can. As of 7.4, unbounded growth problems have gone away and with some trial and error, we've not had any major database

RE: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Niblett, David A
hone: (352) 334-3400 Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ -Original Message- From: Dave Logan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:55 AM To: DBMail mailinglist Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
I don't think there is any need to take this off list, I think there are lot of people who would like to hear this discussion. Anyway I don't run a dbmail site with that much load, however I to have a fair amount of experience running PostgreSQL. 1) Never vacuum FULL: If you are vacuuming oft

Re: [Dbmail] Size, vacuum, performance, etc

2005-11-17 Thread Dave Logan
> So if there is anyone on the list that is using dbmail 2.0 > with PostgreSQL (8.x) with 5k+ users, and a data set of around > 20G would you contact me off list if you like. > We have around that for dataset/userbase, but are using dbmail 1.2. I'll answer your questions anyway. First off, we're r