Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Luke Lonergan
Charles, > FWIW, once our vendor gets all the pieces (having some issues > with figuring out which multilane sata cables to get), I'll > have a dual-core opteron box with a 3Ware 9500SX-12MI and 8 > drives. I need to benchmark to compare this to our > xeon/adaptec/scsi build we've been using

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Mikael Carneholm wrote: Luke, Yeah, I read those results, and I'm very disappointed with my results from the MSA1500. I would however be interested in other people's bonnie++ and benchmarksql results using a similar machine (2 cpu dual core opteron) with other "off the shel

Re: [PERFORM] index usage

2006-07-28 Thread Tom Lane
Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's volatile, but it will always return an integer. If it's volatile then it can't be used for an index condition. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, t

Re: [PERFORM] index usage

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Lewis
A volatile function has may return a different result for each row; think of the random() or nextval() functions for example. You wouldn't want them to return the same value for each row returned. -- Mark Lewis On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:59 -0700, Ben wrote: > It's volatile, but it will always ret

Re: [PERFORM] index usage

2006-07-28 Thread Ben
It's volatile, but it will always return an integer. On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Daniel Caune wrote: De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-performance- [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Ben Envoyé : vendredi, juillet 28, 2006 15:21 À : pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Objet : [PERFORM] index usage I hav

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Luke Lonergan
Jeff, On 7/28/06 10:31 AM, "Jeff Trout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still not sure about that software 10 read number. something is > not right there... It's very consistent with what we've seen before - the hardware RAID controller doesn't do JBOD with SCSI command queuing like a simple SC

Re: [PERFORM] index usage

2006-07-28 Thread Daniel Caune
> De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-performance- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Ben > Envoyé : vendredi, juillet 28, 2006 15:21 > À : pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Objet : [PERFORM] index usage > > I have a table with 37000 rows, an integer column, and an index on that > column. I've go

[PERFORM] index usage

2006-07-28 Thread Ben
I have a table with 37000 rows, an integer column, and an index on that column. I've got a function that returns an integer. When I do a select where I restrict that column to being equal to a static number, explain tells me the index will be used. When I do the same thing but use the function

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Lewis
This isn't all that surprising. The main weaknesses of RAID-5 are poor write performance and stupid hardware controllers that make the write performance even worse than it needs to be. Your numbers bear that out. Reads off RAID-5 are usually pretty good. Your 'dd' test is going to be a little mi

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Leigh Dyer
Mikael Carneholm wrote: I would be interested in what numbers you would get out of bonnie++ (http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++) and BenchmarkSQL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmarksql) on that hardware, for comparison with our DL385 (2xOpteron 280, 16Gb ram) and MSA1500. If you need help bu

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Trout
I too have a DL385 with a single DC Opteron 270. It claims to have a smart array 6i controller and over the last couple of days I've been runnign some tests on it, which have been yielding some suprising results. I've got 6 10k U320 disks in it. 2 are in a mirror set. We'll not pay any at

Re: [PERFORM] Disk writes

2006-07-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 20:25, carlosreimer wrote: > Hi, > > We've a fedora core 3 box with PostgreSQL 8.0. > > There is some performance problems with the server and I discovered > with vmstat tool that there is some process writing a lot of > information in the disk subsystem. > > I stopped t

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig DDR PC3200

2006-07-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
As I have understood, there is alot of tuning using both postgres.conf and analyzing queries to make the values of postgres.conf fit my needs, system and hardware. This is where I need some help. I have looked into postgres.conf , and seen the tunings. But I'm still not sure what I should put into

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Kjell Tore Fossbakk
Hello. Unfortunately, I'm leaving for my vacation now, gone 3 weeks. When I'm back I'll run benchmarksql and bonnie++ and give the results here. The spec I will be using: Prolite DL585 2 x AMD/Opteron 64-bit 2,6GHZ 8G DDR PC3200 4 x 150G SCSI in SmartArray 5i Running Gentoo 2006.0 AMD_64 Hardene

Re: [PERFORM] performance issue with a specific query

2006-07-28 Thread Eliott
Hi!thanks for the quick helpi managed to reduce the response time from seemingly taking infinity to a tolerable level, which is by the way a huge improvement. What helped was the functional index on date_trunc('day',yourfieldhere) as Scott suggested. I tried to disable the geqo, but it didn't make

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Mikael Carneholm
Luke, Yeah, I read those results, and I'm very disappointed with my results from the MSA1500. I would however be interested in other people's bonnie++ and benchmarksql results using a similar machine (2 cpu dual core opteron) with other "off the shelf" storage systems (EMC/Netapp/Xyratex/../). Cou

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Luke Lonergan
Mikael, > -Original Message- > From: Mikael Carneholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:05 AM > > My bonnie++ results are found in this message: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-07/msg00164.php > Apologies if I've already said this, but th

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Luke Lonergan
Mikael, > -Original Message- > From: Mikael Carneholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:47 AM > > I would be interested in what numbers you would get out of bonnie++ > (http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++) and BenchmarkSQL > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmark

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Mikael Carneholm
I would be interested in what numbers you would get out of bonnie++ (http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++) and BenchmarkSQL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmarksql) on that hardware, for comparison with our DL385 (2xOpteron 280, 16Gb ram) and MSA1500. If you need help building benchmarksql, I can

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Luke Lonergan
Kjell, > I got 4 150GIG SCSI disks in a Smart Array 5i 1+0 RAID. The Smart Array 5i is a terrible performer on Linux. I would be surprised if you exceed the performance of a single hard drive with this controller when doing I/O from disk. Since your database working set is larger than memory on