Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-05 Thread Marco Colombo
On 02/08/2010 21:14, John R Pierce wrote: Another factor, if your linux system was using LVM (its the default storage configuration on many distributions), there's a pretty good chance the drive mapper is ignoring write barriers, which greatly speeds up random writes at the expense of reliable co

Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El 2 de agosto de 2010 19:14, John R Pierce escribió: > On 08/02/10 7:35 AM, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > >> Hi >> >> >> I have installed postgres 8.4.4 (libxml and plperl)on a Sun Microsystems >> sun4u Sun Fire 880 with: >> >> - 4 700Mhz processors >> ... >> >> Also I have installed po

Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
2010/8/2 John R Pierce : >  On 08/02/10 7:35 AM, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> I have installed postgres 8.4.4 (libxml and plperl)on a Sun Microsystems >> sun4u Sun Fire 880 with: >> >> - 4 700Mhz processors >> ... >> Also I have installed postgres (8.4.2) on a PC (Dell Opti

Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/02/10 7:35 AM, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I have installed postgres 8.4.4 (libxml and plperl)on a Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 880 with: - 4 700Mhz processors ... Also I have installed postgres (8.4.2) on a PC (Dell Optiplex 960) with the next characteristics: - 3 Gb

Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 14:35 +, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > Hi > > We design some performance tests (special for my application); this > test was executed with pgbench: > > pgbench -c 5 -T 600 -n -U aeedc -f test.sql aeespc > You noted SCSI disks on solaris. They may not have th

[GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
Hi I have installed postgres 8.4.4 (libxml and plperl)on a Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 880 with: - 4 700Mhz processors - 8 Gb Ram - System 9 operSolaris - 64-bit sparcv9 Applications - 32-bit sparc Applications - SCSI-3. Discs do not have any arrangement It was compiled with the sun-studio