Re: [PERFORM] Keyword searching question

2004-07-06 Thread borajetta
Forgot to mention that were running post gres 7.4.2 using a dual optiron system and 4gig ram. The results are used by the PHP web server. Thanks again - Original Message - From: borajetta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Keywor

[PERFORM] Keyword searching question

2004-07-06 Thread borajetta
I have been trying to get keyword searching quicker and have now decided to make smaller tables.   I was working with tables of about 50 000 000 rows but now will use about 1.5million rows, I am using a TSearch2 to find keywords in the titles column of the rows.  I have indexes using a gist i

Re: [PERFORM] to fsync or not to fsync (ext3?)

2004-07-06 Thread Rodrigo Filgueira
Frank, thanks for your answer, This article http://www.linuxjournal.com/print.php?sid=5841 evaluates performance from a relational database point of view and it concludes that ext3 is faster. The articles you provided evaluate filesystems by using basic shell commands, copy, tar, touch. I really

Re: [PERFORM] to fsync or not to fsync

2004-07-06 Thread Frank Hsueh
Rodrigo, > Hello there, I'm trying to make sure my postgres 7.4 is running as fast > as it can in my box. > ... > My Software config is: > > RedHat 7.3 - 2.4.20-28.7smp Kernel, reporting four processors because of > hyper threading. > Postgres 7.4 > Data directory is on a ext3 journaled filesys

[PERFORM] to fsync or not to fsync

2004-07-06 Thread Rodrigo Filgueira
Hello there, I'm trying to make sure my postgres 7.4 is running as fast as it can in my box. My hardware configuration is: HP ML-350G3 Dup processor XEON 2.8 Three U320, 1 rpm disks, RAID-5 HP 641 Raid Controller. 1GB RAM My Software config is: RedHat 7.3 - 2.4.20-28.7smp Kernel, reporting fo