Re: [PERFORM] Postgres server crash

2006-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Craig A. James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's something I found googling for "memory overcommitment"+linux > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2000-04/0512.html That might have been right when it was written (note the reference to a 2.2 Linux kernel), but it's 100% wrong now

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres server crash

2006-11-18 Thread Craig A. James
Richard Troy wrote: I did that - spent about two f-ing hours looking for what I wanted. (Guess I entered poor choices for my searches. -frown- ) There are a LOT of articles that TALK ABOUT OOM, but prescious few actually tell you what you can do about it. Trying to save you some time: On linux

Fwd: [PERFORM] start up cost estimate

2006-11-18 Thread rakesh kumar
-- Forwarded message -- From: rakesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 19, 2006 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] start up cost estimate To: Joshua Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi for suppose if I had a query , something like :

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Brian Wipf
On 18-Nov-06, at 11:30 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I might get shared_buffers higher than 284263? My guess is something else has taken shared memory a

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres server crash

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Troy
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Craig A. James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OOM? Can you give me a quick pointer to what this acronym stands for > > and how I can reconfigure it? > > See "Linux Memory Overcommit" at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/kernel-resources.html#

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Guido Neitzer
Hi. I've sent this out once, but I think it didn't make it through the mail server ... don't know why. If it is a double post - sorry for it. Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to optimize a PostgreSQL 8.1.5 database running on an > Apple G5 Xserve (dual G5 2.3 GHz w/ 8GB of

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Guido Neitzer
Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to optimize a PostgreSQL 8.1.5 database running on an > Apple G5 Xserve (dual G5 2.3 GHz w/ 8GB of RAM), running Mac OS X > 10.4.8 Server. > > The queries on the database are mostly reads, and I know a larger > shared memory allocation will

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I >> might get shared_buffers higher than 284263? > My guess is something else has taken shared memory ahead of you. OS X > seems to be som

Re: [PERFORM] start up cost estimate

2006-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
"rakesh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to know , how the start up cost is computed in postgresql Look into http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c regards, tom lane ---(end of b

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Dave Cramer
Brian, On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: I'm trying to optimize a PostgreSQL 8.1.5 database running on an Apple G5 Xserve (dual G5 2.3 GHz w/ 8GB of RAM), running Mac OS X 10.4.8 Server. The queries on the database are mostly reads, and I know a larger shared memory allocation w

Re: [PERFORM] start up cost estimate

2006-11-18 Thread Joshua Marsh
On 11/18/06, rakesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi , I wanted to know , how the start up cost is computed in postgresql . can u give me an example to illustrate the estimation of start up cost . thanku raa . It would

Re: [PERFORM] Optimicing Postgres for SunSolaris10 on V240

2006-11-18 Thread Marc Cousin
Hi... Bacula does no transaction right now, so every insert is done separately with autocommit. Moreover, the insert loop for the main table is done by several individual queries to insert data in several tables (filename, dir, then file), so this is slow. There's work underway to speed that up,

[PERFORM] start up cost estimate

2006-11-18 Thread rakesh kumar
Hi , I wanted to know , how the start up cost is computed in postgresql . can u give me an example to illustrate the estimation of start up cost . thanku raa .