Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-11-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: For the pg configuration, I use this on a 4Gb box: max_connections = 100 shared_buffers = 7 # min 16 or max_connections*2, 8KB each work_mem = 262144 # min 64, size in KB Thank you very much.

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-11-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 24, 2006, at 7:27 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: I believe the front-end application is MySQL dependent, but what is so much better about PostgreSQL? I understand that it has some more advanced features, but if they are not used, then what is the advantage? (I really like the InnooDB storag

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-11-10 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: The size of your DB is not all that large. There are people running terabyte DB's under postgres. Our big DB is around 60Gb with hundreds of millions of rows spread across dozens of tables which a

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-31 Thread Karl Denninger
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:01:38PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Greetings, > >I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for > an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The > hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k > r

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
; Cc: Mike Jakubik; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD > > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:15:04PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > > > As for Postgres on FreeBSD, FlighAware seems to be using it some > some > > > decent amount of dat

RE: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-27 Thread Bucky Jordan
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim C. Nasby > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:44 AM > To: David Magda > Cc: Mike Jakubik; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD >

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-26 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:15:04PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > As for Postgres on FreeBSD, FlighAware seems to be using it some some > decent amount of data: > > >. Receiving the data and processing it puts them about 6 minutes > >behind real time > >. Generating one map can be done in about 1

RE: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Bucky Jordan
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:00 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD > > On Monday 23 October 2006 6:01 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > I'm not exactly informed as

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 23 October 2006 6:01 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote: > I'm not exactly informed as to the specific workload yet, however i know > the database will have several million rows and be larger than 10GB. No offense, but that's a pretty small database. Also, IMHO the crazy part is using MySQL over

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Alex Hayward
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:10:19PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > As for the disk configuration, using RAID-5 is one of the worst > > possible choices for a database; using multiple RAID-1 mirrors or a > > RAID-10 config would probably d

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: The size of your DB is not all that large. There are people running terabyte DB's under postgres. Our big DB is around 60Gb with hundreds of millions of rows spread across dozens of tables which are regularly joined with each other fo

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :) Secondly, i am just looking for some suggestions, opinions, success/failure story's that ma

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :) Secondly, i am just looking for some suggestions, opinions, success/failure story's that may help me out. Is anyone out there us

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Christoph Schug
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: >I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for > an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The > hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k > rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: I believe the front-end application is MySQL dependent, but what is so much better about PostgreSQL? I understand that it has some more advanced features, but if they are not used, then what is the advantage? (I really like the InnooDB stora

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mike Jakubik wrote: > I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for > an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The > hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k > rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not exactly informed a

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:10:19PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > As for the disk configuration, using RAID-5 is one of the worst > possible choices for a database; using multiple RAID-1 mirrors or a > RAID-10 config would probably do a lot better in terms of performance > and reliabil

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Gavin Atkinson
[ Replying offlist as pretty much all my points have already been said by others, so I'm just trying to help reinforce what others have said ] On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:01 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for > an even larger company,

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Oct-24 02:21:06 +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: >>On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: >>>advanced features, but if they are not used, then what is the >>>advantage? (I really like the InnooDB storage in MySQL) One nice thing about MySQL is the plethora of backends - you can p

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Claus Guttesen
I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not exactly informed as to the specific workload yet, ho

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:09, Bill Moran wrote: Well, you should be using FreeBSD+PostgreSQL, but that's just my religion. Is it religion when it just makes more sense? But I digress. There are numerous reasons to prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL, a few of which are: - It scales well to multiple

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Allen
>From Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:44:45PM -0400: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this > >>rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :) > > > >Moderately...it k

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Bill Moran wrote: Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k rpm d

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:00:22 +0200, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for moderate to extreme load, for a system t

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread David Magda
On Oct 23, 2006, at 19:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Jakubik
Ronald Klop wrote: I'm running MySQL 5 on Linux at my work (4 disk RAID 10/32G RAM/4xsingle-core). It has a DB of > 100 GB and much more than millions of rows and the preformance is very good with quite a lot of users via the webserver. But I do not have any comparisons with Oracle or other sy

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Jakubik
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: So, first of all, am i crazy for choosing fbsd+mysql for this rather than something like Solaris + Oracle? :) Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable c

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:01:38 +0200, Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for > an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The > hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k > rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. Genera