Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Psicopunk wrote: > >> I will take some measurements and analyze this graphs. > > A snapshot of "vmstat 1" data from when something like your real app is > running is far more useful at figuring out where you should allocate

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Psicopunk wrote: I will take some measurements and analyze this graphs. A snapshot of "vmstat 1" data from when something like your real app is running is far more useful at figuring out where you should allocate your hardware resources for than any theoretical planning

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-14 Thread Psicopunk
Thanks,Greg! I will read your articles. This is a great help to understand what HW and how to tune my postgresql. Best regards. On 14 Set, 16:46, scott.marl...@gmail.com (Scott Marlowe) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Psicopunk wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-14 Thread Psicopunk
Hi, Thanks for your help. I will take some measurements and analyze this graphs. Does anyone know where i can get a book about Postgresql Tuning and hardware impact on performance? Thanks Best regards. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > For about $8000 more you can get a 16 drive machine with 146G drives > and same basic setup, which I would recommend over the 8 drive > machine.  With 2 hot spares, and 2 in a mirror for the OS/xlog you > still have 12 drives for a RAID-10 of

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Chris Barnes wrote: > > > Purchase solid equipment and fairly current machines. > We buy referbished system at a fraction of the cost of new. > > For example; > IBM 3650 with 8 x 300g SAS drives and controller, 4 slot dual with the > following specs. 16 gb memory.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Barnes
t; From: gil.nunes.rese...@gmail.com > Subject: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:01:29 -0700 > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > Hi, > > We are developing a web application that will work on Postgresql. My > doubt is about the hardware that I can u

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Alan McKay
> How can i take some measurements to understand what bottlenecks will > appear? For long-term / ongoing I'm very happy so far with a package called munin. Google it and join their mailing list for help setting it up. But it takes snapshots at 5 minute intervals and this is not configurable. Fo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Psicopunk
On 11 Set, 17:59, vi...@khera.org (Vick Khera) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Psicopunk > wrote: > > What HW is more important to postgresql performance? > > Assuming that the database will have some load, what hardware must i > > buy? > > Generally, you put as much RAM as you can affo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Ben Chobot
How much reading? Writing? Concurrent transactions? How much data will you have? These are some of the things you need to provide to get a reasonable answer. Psicopunk wrote: Hi, We are developing a web application that will work on Postgresql. My doubt is about the hardware that I can use fo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Vick Khera : > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Psicopunk > wrote: > > > What HW is more important to postgresql performance? > > Assuming that the database will have some load, what hardware must i > > buy? > > > Generally, you put as much RAM as you can afford, and then buy t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Psicopunk wrote: > What HW is more important to postgresql performance? > Assuming that the database will have some load, what hardware must i > buy? Generally, you put as much RAM as you can afford, and then buy the fastest disks you can afford. Any advice bey

[GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware

2009-09-11 Thread Psicopunk
Hi, We are developing a web application that will work on Postgresql. My doubt is about the hardware that I can use for postgresql. What HW is more important to postgresql performance? Assuming that the database will have some load, what hardware must i buy? Thanks Best regards -- Sent via pg