[PERFORM] Michael Clemmons wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Clemmons
LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Michael Clemmons Confirm that you know Michael Clemmons https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/1082803004/E81w7LvD/ -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corporation

Re: [PERFORM] bgwriter tunables vs pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-02-17 Thread Greg Smith
Jeff wrote: while(true) { if buffers_written > bgwriter_lru_maxpages or buffers_written > anticipated_pages_needed * bgwriter_lru_multiplier { sleep(bgwriter_delay ms) continue; } ... } so I should not be able to have more than ~5000 bgwriter_clean pages

Re: [PERFORM] bgwriter tunables vs pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-02-17 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:30 -0500, Jeff wrote: > Since getting on 8.4 I've been monitoring things fairly closely. > I whipped up a quick script to monitor pg_stat_bgwriter and save > deltas every minute so I can ensure my bgwriter is beating out the > backends for writes (as it is supposed to d

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-17 Thread Rose Zhou
Vacuum Full Verbose did not get the disk space back to OS, it did bloat my indexes, also got out of memory error. I dumped the suspicious table, deleted it, re-created it, then restored the data and re-indexed the data, so I got the disk space back. To avoid the database eating up the disk space

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Rose Zhou wrote: > Thanks Ben: > > I will adjust the auto vacuum parameters. It is on now, maybe not frequently > enough. > How to get the disk space back to OS? Will a Vacuum Full Verbose get the disk > space back to OS? > > Yes, but it might bloat your index

[PERFORM] bgwriter tunables vs pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-02-17 Thread Jeff
Since getting on 8.4 I've been monitoring things fairly closely. I whipped up a quick script to monitor pg_stat_bgwriter and save deltas every minute so I can ensure my bgwriter is beating out the backends for writes (as it is supposed to do). Now, the odd thing I'm running into is this: bg

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +, Matthew Wakeling wrote: Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds