Re: [GENERAL] Need setup help for Postgresql 8.1.3 on Solaris 10

2007-01-16 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hello Richard, > > I decreased the import time from >40 minutes to 32 minutes with changing > > the parameters to: > > > > shared_buffers = 45 # kept same > > temp_buffers = 10# kept same > > > > work_mem = 32768 # now 32mb , before: 102400 = 100mb > > maintenanc

Re: [GENERAL] Need setup help for Postgresql 8.1.3 on Solaris

2007-01-12 Thread Richard Huxton
Gellert, Andre wrote: Hello Richard, We have such a testsystem now, 4 x AMD Opteron (double core techn.) 885 2.6ghz , running with 32 GB Ram and fast 10.000rpm SAS discs, How many disks? What RAID? 4 Disks, RAID1. Is your disk I/O saturating? Try vmstat/iostat (or whatever the Solaris equ

Re: [GENERAL] Need setup help for Postgresql 8.1.3 on Solaris 10

2007-01-12 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hello Richard, > > We have such a testsystem now, 4 x AMD Opteron (double core techn.) > > 885 2.6ghz , running with 32 GB Ram and fast 10.000rpm SAS discs, > > How many disks? What RAID? 4 Disks, RAID1. > Is your disk I/O saturating? Try vmstat/iostat (or whatever the Solaris > equivalent i

Re: [GENERAL] Need setup help for Postgresql 8.1.3 on Solaris 10

2007-01-12 Thread Richard Huxton
Gellert, Andre wrote: Hello all, I need some hints how to setup Postgresql on a brand new testsystem. Due to heavy load on the current database servers, my boss decided to test a big server as a replacement for 5 other servers. ;-) The system is used in a extranet environment - over 50 percen

[GENERAL] Need setup help for Postgresql 8.1.3 on Solaris 10

2007-01-12 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hello all, I need some hints how to setup Postgresql on a brand new testsystem. Due to heavy load on the current database servers, my boss decided to test a big server as a replacement for 5 other servers. ;-) The system is used in a extranet environment - over 50 percent of the load is prod