[GENERAL] Hardware performance

2014-02-27 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; We're talking with a HW / Data Center company about scaling up our DB servers... Below are some questions they asked relaed to moving to SSD's or maybe a Fusion IO drive. Anyone have any thoughts, specifically on the queue depth question? Thanks in advance... /So our question I thi

[GENERAL] Hardware Performance Tuning

2003-08-14 Thread Knut P. Lehre
The doc "PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning" by Bruce Momjian, 16th January 2003 says: "As a start for tuning, use 25% of RAM for cache size, and 2-4% for sort size.", and "The default POSTGRESQL conguration allocates 64 shared buffers. Each buffer is 8 kilobytes.". Have I understood it corr

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware Performance Tuning

2003-08-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
I need to update that. 7.4 will use many more shared buffers by default. Yes, they are very small because we want to start even on small machines. --- Knut P. Lehre wrote: > The doc "PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning"