Re: [PERFORM] Issues with OSX and SHMMAX?

2013-04-21 Thread Evgeny Shishkin
On Apr 22, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > I've heard a rumor that the most recent update of OSX "mountain lion" > lowers the installed SHMMAX to 4MB, which prevents PostgreSQL from > installing. Can anyone verify this? > kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304 mac os x 10.8.3 > -- > J

[PERFORM] Issues with OSX and SHMMAX?

2013-04-21 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I've heard a rumor that the most recent update of OSX "mountain lion" lowers the installed SHMMAX to 4MB, which prevents PostgreSQL from installing. Can anyone verify this? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-p

Re: [PERFORM]

2013-04-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
I was gonna tell you to turn off full page writes, but in 8.1 that setting is ignored. For reference, here's the pages that you should look at for this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime-config-wal.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/wal-configuration.html For 9.1, the

Re: [PERFORM]

2013-04-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 AM, sunil virmani wrote: > Hi, > > My databases are updated regularly so I am vacuuming frequently (every one > hour). Recently i also added template1 database to avoid over wrapping > problem. But somehow i am seeing strange behavior. > > Most of the time all db vacuu

Re: [PERFORM]

2013-04-21 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:46 AM, sunil virmani wrote: > My DB version is little old - 8.1.18. > Your db is exceptionally old and very much unsupported. Vacuum has massively improved since 8.1 . See http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ regarding supported versions.

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2013-04-21 Thread sunil virmani
Hi, My databases are updated regularly so I am vacuuming frequently (every one hour). Recently i also added template1 database to avoid over wrapping problem. But somehow i am seeing strange behavior. Most of the time all db vacuuming finish in 30 secs. but once in a day or two - My actual DB is