Re: [PERFORM] SAN vs Internal Disks

2007-09-06 Thread Joel Fradkin
I am not sure I agree with that evaluation. I only have 2 dell database servers and they have been 100% reliable. Maybe he is referring to support which does tend be up to who you get. When I asked about performance on my new server they were very helpful but I did have a bad time on my NAS device

Re: [PERFORM] Dell Hardware Recommendations

2007-08-10 Thread Joel Fradkin
I bought both the 1u 2 proc and the larger 4 proc have been very good. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941-753-7111 ext 305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com Powered by Wazagua Providing you with the latest Web-based technology & advanced tool

Re: [PERFORM] Massive performance issues

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Fradkin
Any chance it's a vacuum thing? Or configuration (out of the box it needs adjusting)? Joel Fradkin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merlin Moncure Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:11 PM To: Matthew Sackman Cc: pgsql-perfor

Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-06-06 Thread Joel Fradkin
issues. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941-753-7111 ext 305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com Powered by Wazagua Providing you with the latest Web-based technology & advanced tools. C 2004. WAZAGUA, Inc. All rights reserved. WAZAGUA, Inc This e

Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-05-24 Thread Joel Fradkin
running better then when I was on MSSQL, and MYSQL was just slower on the tests I did. I loaded both MYSQL and postgres on both my 4 processor Dell running red hat AS3 and Windows XP on a optiplex. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941-753-7111 ext 305

[PERFORM] cant seem to post the explain

2005-05-20 Thread Joel Fradkin
time consuming. Any ideas for how to approach getting the same data set in a faster manner are greatly appreciated.   Joel Fradkin    

[PERFORM] performance on a querry with many group by's any way to speed it up?

2005-05-20 Thread Joel Fradkin
ecompleted, dateauditkeyed, datekeyingcomplete, section, createdby, division, auditscoredesc, locationnum, text_response     Joel Fradkin   Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel.  941-753-7111 ext 305   [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com Powered by Wazagua Providing you with

Re: [PERFORM] Prefetch

2005-05-16 Thread Joel Fradkin
My only comment is what is the layout of your data (just one table with indexes?). I found on my date with dozens of joins my view speed was not good for me to use, so I made a flat file with no joins and it flies. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941

Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
and audit applications) I created denormalized files and maintain them through code. All reporting comes off those and it is lightning fast. I just want to say again thanks to everyone who has helped me in the past few months. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243

[PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-13 Thread Joel Fradkin
conclusion on where is best to get one (I really want two one for development too).     Joel Fradkin   Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel.  941-753-7111 ext 305   [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com Powered by Wazagua Providing you with the latest Web-based

[PERFORM] Configing 8 gig box.

2005-05-09 Thread Joel Fradkin
.   shared_buffers = 24576 work_mem = 32768 max_fsm_pages = 10 max_fsm_relations = 1500 fsync = true wal_sync_method = open_sync wal_buffers = 2048 checkpoint_segments = 100 effective_cache_size = 524288 default_statistics_target = 250   Any help is appreciated.       Joel Fradkin

Re: [PERFORM] Final decision

2005-04-27 Thread Joel Fradkin
Just realize, you probably *don't* want to set that in postgresql.conf. You just want to issue an "SET enable_seqscan TO off" before issuing one of the queries that are mis-planned. I believe all the tested queries (90 some odd views) saw an improvement. I will however take the time to verify this

Re: [PERFORM] Final decision

2005-04-27 Thread Joel Fradkin
BTW, your performance troubleshooting will continue to be hampered if you can't share actual queries and data structure. I strongly suggest that you make a confidentiality contract with a support provider so that you can give them detailed (rather than general) problem reports. I am glad to h

Re: [PERFORM] Final decision

2005-04-27 Thread Joel Fradkin
Sorry I am using Redhat AS4 and postgres 8.0.2 Joel   You didnt tell us what OS are you using, windows? If you want good performance you must install unix on  that machine,   ---    

[PERFORM] Final decision

2005-04-27 Thread Joel Fradkin
up functionality and have one for reporting and one for inserts and updates; so not sure which machine would be best for which spot (reminder the more robust is a 4proc with 8 gigs and 2 proc is 4 gigs, both dells).   Thank you for any ideas in this arena.   Joel Fradkin      

Re: [ODBC] [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-25 Thread Joel Fradkin
Tried changing the settings and saw no change in a test using asp. The test does several selects on views and tables. It actually seemed to take a bit longer. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941-753-7111 ext 305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com

Re: [ODBC] [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-25 Thread Joel Fradkin
tool last time I did stress testing). Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520 Trailmate Dr Sarasota, Florida 34243 Tel. 941-753-7111 ext 305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wazagua.com Powered by Wazagua Providing you with the latest Web-based technology & advanced tools. C 2004. WAZAGUA, Inc. All rights

[PERFORM] flattening the file might work for me here is the analyze.

2005-04-23 Thread Joel Fradkin
"Index Scan using ix_tblviwauditcube_clientnum on tblviwauditcube  (cost=0.00..35895.75 rows=303982 width=708) (actual time=0.145..1320.432 rows=316490 loops=1)" "  Index Cond: ((clientnum)::text = 'MSI'::text)" "Total runtime: 1501.028 ms"  

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-23 Thread Joel Fradkin
I would very, very strongly encourage you to run multi-user tests before deciding on mysql. Mysql is nowhere near as capable when it comes to concurrent operations as PostgreSQL is. From what others have said, it doesn't take many concurrent operations for it to just fall over. I can't speak from e

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-22 Thread Joel Fradkin
Query tool, but it certainly seems encouraging. I am going to visit Josh's tests he wanted me to run on the LINUX server. Joel Fradkin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-22 Thread Joel Fradkin
One further question is: is this really a meaningful test? I mean, in production are you going to query 30 rows regularly? It is a query snippet if you will as the view I posted for audit and case where tables are joined are more likely to be ran. Josh and I worked over this until we got ex

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-21 Thread Joel Fradkin
tableC ursors=1;DisallowPremature=0;TrueIsMinus1=0;BI=0;ByteaAsLongVarBinary=0;UseS erverSidePrepare=0" Joel Fradkin -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Iss

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-21 Thread Joel Fradkin
I suspect he's using pgadmin. Yup I was, but I did try running on the linux box in psql, but it was running to the screen and took forever because of that. The real issue is returning to my app using ODBC is very slow (Have not tested the ODBC for MYSQL, MSSQL is ok (the two proc dell is runnin

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-21 Thread Joel Fradkin
Why is MYSQL returning 360,000 rows, while Postgres is only returning 330,000? This may not be important at all, though. I also assume you are selecting from a plain table, not a view. Yes plain table. Difference in rows is one of the datasets had sears data in it. It (speed differences found) is

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-20 Thread Joel Fradkin
like 89 on the second run. The first run was 147 secs all told. These are all on my 2 meg desktop running XP. I can post the config. I noticed the postgres was using 70% of the cpu while MSSQL was 100%. Joel Fradkin >I would of spent more $ with Command, but he does need my data base to help

Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

2005-04-20 Thread Joel Fradkin
ly on the performance on the 4 proc box. Joel Fradkin -Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:54 PM To: Joel Fradkin Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Joel's Performance Issues WAS : Opteron vs Xeon

Re: [PERFORM] Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)

2005-04-20 Thread Joel Fradkin
There have been some discussions on this list and others in general about Dell's version of RAID cards, and server support, mainly linux support. I was pretty impressed with the Dell guy. He spent the day with me remotely and went through my system 6650 with powervault. Changed my drives from ext3

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-18 Thread Joel Fradkin
pgAdmin III uses libpq, not the ODBC driver. Sorry I am not too aware of all the semantics. I guess the question is if it is normal to take 2 mins to get 160K of records, or is there something else I can do (I plan on limiting the query screens using limit and offset; I realize this will only be e

FW: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-18 Thread Joel Fradkin
Sorry if this posts twice I posted and did not see it hit the list. What are the statistics for tbljobtitle.id and tbljobtitle.clientnum I added default_statistics_target = 250 to the config and re-loaded the data base. If that is what you mean? --- how many distinct values of each, tbljobtitl

FW: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-18 Thread Joel Fradkin
What are the statistics for tbljobtitle.id and tbljobtitle.clientnum I added default_statistics_target = 250 to the config and re-loaded the data base. If that is what you mean? --- how many distinct values of each, tbljobtitle.id 6764 for all clients 1018 for SAKS tbljobtitle.clientnum 237 di

FW: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-18 Thread Joel Fradkin
Another odd thing is when I tried turning off merge joins on the XP desktop It took 32 secs to run compared to the 6 secs it was taking. On the Linux (4proc box) it is now running in 3 secs with the mergejoins turned off. Unfortunately it takes over 2 minutes to actually return the 160,000+ rows.

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-15 Thread Joel Fradkin
Joel Fradkin Turning off merg joins seems to of done it but what do I need to do so I am not telling the system explicitly not to use them, I must be missing some setting? On linux box. explain analyze select * from viwassoclist where clientnum ='SAKS' "Hash Join (cost=98

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-15 Thread Joel Fradkin
Might make a good deal more data, but I think from the app's point of view it is a good idea anyway, just not sure how to handle editing. Joel Fradkin "Merge Join (cost=49697.60..50744.71 rows=14987 width=113) (actual time=11301.160..12171.072 rows=160593 loops=1)" " Merge Cond

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
analyze. Joel Fradkin Dawid Kuroczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically it tells postgres how many values should it keep for > statistics per column. The config default_statistics_target > is the default (= used when creating table) and ALTER... is > a way to change it

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
at Linux so not sure I have got it yet still testing. Still kind puzzled why it chose tow different option, but one is running windows version of postgres, so maybe that has something to do with it. The data bases and configs (as far as page cost) are the same. Joel Fradkin Wazagua, Inc. 2520

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
Josh from commandprompt.com had me alter the config to have default_statistics_target = 250 Is this somehow related to what your asking me to do? I did do an analyze, but have only ran the viw a few times. Joel Fradkin -Original Message- From: Dawid Kuroczko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
I have done a vacuum and a vacuum analyze. I can try again for kicks, but it is not in production so no new records are added and vacuum analyze is ran after any mods to the indexes. I am still pursuing Dell on why the monster box is so much slower then the desktop as well. Joel Fradkin

Re: [PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-13 Thread Joel Fradkin
are you sure the query was identical in each case. I just ran a second time same results ensuring that the query is the same. Not sure why it is doing a column10 thing. Any ideas what to look for? Both data bases are a restore from the same backup file. One is running redhat the other XP, I beli

[PERFORM] speed of querry?

2005-04-13 Thread Joel Fradkin
obtitle jt (cost=0.00..239.76 rows=6604 width=37) (actual time=0.016..11.323 rows=5690 loops=1)" "Filter: (1 = presentationid)" " -> Sort (cost=24825.80..25265.84 rows=176015 width=53) (actual time=8729.320..8945.292 rows=177041 loops=1)&quo

Re: [PERFORM] Is there somthing I need to do on my production server?

2005-04-11 Thread Joel Fradkin
Here is the config for the AS4 server. # - # PostgreSQL configuration file # - # # This file consists of lines of the form: # # name = value # # (The '=' is optional.) White space may be used. Comments are introduced # with '#' anywhere on

[PERFORM] Is there somthing I need to do on my production server?

2005-04-11 Thread Joel Fradkin
e? "    ->  Seq Scan on tblassociate a  (cost=0.00..30849.25 rows=176933 width=53) (actual time=543.931..1674.518 rows=177041 loops=1)" "  Filter: ((clientnum)::text = 'SAKS'::text)" which if I understand this (not saying I do) is ta

Re: [PERFORM] Any way to speed this up?

2005-04-07 Thread Joel Fradkin
Filter: (1 = presentationid)" " -> Sort (cost=60296.29..60796.09 rows=199922 width=53) (actual time=13406.000..13859.000 rows=176431 loops=1)" "Sort Key: a.jobtitleid, (a.clientnum)::text" "-> Seq Scan on tblass

Re: [PERFORM] Any way to speed this up?

2005-04-07 Thread Joel Fradkin
shared_buffers = 8000 # min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each work_mem = 8192#1024# min 64, size in KB max_fsm_pages = 3 # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each effective_cache_size = 4 #1000 # typically 8KB each random_page_cost = 1.2#4

[PERFORM] Any way to speed this up?

2005-04-07 Thread Joel Fradkin
timestamp,   close_time timestamp,   insurance_loc_id varchar(50),   lpregionid int4,   sic int4,   CONSTRAINT pk_tbllocation PRIMARY KEY (clientnum, locationid),   CONSTRAINT ix_tbllocation_1 UNIQUE (clientnum, locationnum, name),   CONSTRAINT ix_tbllocation_unique_number UNIQUE (clientnum, divisionid, regionid, districtid, locationnum) )   Joel Fradkin    

Re: [PERFORM] Peformance Tuning Opterons/ Hard Disk Layout

2005-02-24 Thread Joel Fradkin
I am no expert, but have been asking them a bunch and I think your missing a key concept. The data is best on several drives. I could be completely off, but if I understood (I just finished doing the same kind of thing minus several databases) you want your WAL on fast drives in raid 1 and your da