Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit [was on HACKERS list]

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We tried reducing the memory footprint of the postgres processes, via > shared_buffers (from 3 on Linux to 3000 on Windows), I would never go below 1. 2 to 3 is a goo

Re: [PERFORM] [OT] RAID controllers blocking one another?

2008-01-18 Thread Sean Davis
On Jan 18, 2008 2:14 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sean Davis wrote: > > > FYI, here are the specs on the server. > > http://www.thinkmate.com/System/8U_Dual_Xeon_i2SS40-8U_Storage_Server > > Now we're getting somewhere. I'll dump this on-list as it's a good > e

Re: [PERFORM] [OT] RAID controllers blocking one another?

2008-01-18 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sean Davis wrote: FYI, here are the specs on the server. http://www.thinkmate.com/System/8U_Dual_Xeon_i2SS40-8U_Storage_Server Now we're getting somewhere. I'll dump this on-list as it's a good example of how to fight this class of performance problems. The usual troub

Re: [PERFORM] strange pauses

2008-01-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 18, 2008 4:58 AM, Adrian Moisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We use a lot of checkpoints in our database, we don't care about these > much. We think this is causing the checkpoint to write a lot of data at > checkpoint time. Can we stop this behavior ? You can smooth out the checkpoint

Re: [PERFORM] [OT] RAID controllers blocking one another?

2008-01-18 Thread Sean Davis
On Jan 17, 2008 6:23 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2008 2:17 PM, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> two3-ware cards, one 9640SE-24 and one 9640SE-16 > > Sounds like they're sharing something they shouldn't be. I'm no

Re: [PERFORM] strange pauses

2008-01-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Adrian Moisey wrote: > Hi > If I tail the logs, I see a steady stream of functions that took longer then 5 seconds. But every now and then I see nothing for 3 minutes and after that a whole bunch (about 20 - 30) queries all finishing at the same second. >>> >>> Search this l

Re: [PERFORM] strange pauses

2008-01-18 Thread Adrian Moisey
Hi If I tail the logs, I see a steady stream of functions that took longer then 5 seconds. But every now and then I see nothing for 3 minutes and after that a whole bunch (about 20 - 30) queries all finishing at the same second. Search this list for references to "checkpoints". If you run

Re: [PERFORM] strange pauses

2008-01-18 Thread Adrian Moisey
Hi If I tail the logs, I see a steady stream of functions that took longer then 5 seconds. But every now and then I see nothing for 3 minutes and after that a whole bunch (about 20 - 30) queries all finishing at the same second. Search this list for references to "checkpoints". If you run