Re: [PERFORM] hardware upgrade, performance degrade?

2013-03-04 Thread John Rouillard
ware to a non-striped (raid 1) volume on the new hardware. That could explain the speed drop. Are the disks the same speed for the two systems? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- S

Re: [PERFORM] Why does the query planner use two full indexes, when a dedicated partial index exists? (solved?)

2012-12-24 Thread John Rouillard
your other queries running outside the transaction. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_PostgreSQL:_A_Competitive_Analysis and http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-dropindex.html -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys

Re: [PERFORM] "error with invalid page header" while vacuuming pgbench data

2011-05-25 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 03:19:59PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > John Rouillard wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > >> John Rouillard wrote: > >> > >> > I seem to be able to provoke this error: > >> >

Re: [PERFORM] "error with invalid page header" while vacuuming pgbench data

2011-05-25 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > John Rouillard wrote: > > > I seem to be able to provoke this error: > > > >vacuum...ERROR: invalid page header in > > block 2128910 of relation base/16385/21476 > >

[PERFORM] "error with invalid page header" while vacuuming pgbench data

2011-05-23 Thread John Rouillard
disk wd2003; controller LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i Could it be an ext4 issue? It seems that ext4 may still be at the bleeding edge for postgres use. Thanks for any thoughts even if it's go to the admin list. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administ

Re: [PERFORM] Using pgiosim realistically

2011-05-17 Thread John Rouillard
ops Maybe the completion target percentage is off because of the threads? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performa

Re: [PERFORM] Using pgiosim realistically

2011-05-16 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:23:13PM -0400, Jeff wrote: > On May 16, 2011, at 9:17 AM, John Rouillard wrote: > >However, in my case I have an 8 disk raid 10 with a read only load (in > >this testing configuration). Shouldn't I expect more iops than a > >single disk can

Re: [PERFORM] Using pgiosim realistically

2011-05-16 Thread John Rouillard
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:07:02PM -0500, k...@rice.edu wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:09:41PM +0000, John Rouillard wrote: > > I am adding pgiosim to our testing for new database hardware and I am > > seeing something I don't quite get and I think it's becau

[PERFORM] Using pgiosim realistically

2011-05-13 Thread John Rouillard
adata although that seems like a lot of data If I stop the pgiosim, the iostat drops to 0 write and reads as expected. So does anybody have any comments on how to test with pgiosim and how to correlate the iostat and pgiosim outputs? Thanks for your feedback. --

[PERFORM] OT (slightly) testing for data loss on an SSD drive due to power failure

2011-04-22 Thread John Rouillard
t storage as fast as the data is coming in. (I.E. make it a writeback with a longer delay so it's more likely to drop data.) Does anybody have any comments or testing methodologies that don't involve using an actual postgres instance? Thanks for your help. --

[PERFORM] Assessing performance of fetches

2011-04-18 Thread John Rouillard
tch/cursor change the steps I should take in tuning it compared to somebody just issuing a normal select? Thanks for any ideas. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Sent via pg

Re: [PERFORM] Are we in the ballpark?

2011-02-02 Thread John Rouillard
eed to test your raid card batteries (nothing like having a battery with only a 6 hour runtime when it takes you a couple of days MTTR), can your database app survive with that low a commit rate? As you said you ar expecting something almost 4-5x faster with 7200 rpm disks. --

Re: [PERFORM] performance on new linux boxeradmin(11983)i: STATEMENT: update license set expires= '2010-06-15' where lic

2010-07-08 Thread John Rouillard
output to make sure the bbu is enabled and the cache is turned on for the raid array u0 or u1 ...? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list

Re: [PERFORM] Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

2009-11-16 Thread John Rouillard
they are less than a 5 day capacity (failure over a long weekend 3 days + 1-2 day(s) to fix the issue (replace power supply, mobo etc.)). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Sent v

Re: [PERFORM] Very poor performance loading 100M of sql data using copy

2008-04-29 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:16:02PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, John Rouillard wrote: > > > 2008-04-21 11:36:43 UTC @(2761)i: LOG: checkpoints ... (27 seconds > > apart) > > so I changed: > > checkpoint_segments = 30 > > checkpoint_war

Re: [PERFORM] Very poor performance loading 100M of sql data using copy

2008-04-29 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:19:59AM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > John Rouillard wrote: > > >We can't do this as we are backfilling a couple of months of data > >into tables with existing data. > > Is this a one off data loading of historic data or an ongoing thing?

Re: [PERFORM] Very poor performance loading 100M of sql data using copy

2008-04-28 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:53:09PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > John Rouillard wrote: > >We are running postgresql-8.1.3 under Centos 4 > You should upgrade, at least to the latest minor release of the 8.1 > series (8.1.11), as there has been a bunch of important bug and se

[PERFORM] Very poor performance loading 100M of sql data using copy

2008-04-28 Thread John Rouillard
ns when you re-add the index? Does anybody have any things to check/ideas on why loading a 100Mb sql file using psql would take 3 hours? Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-