Re: [PERFORM] concurrent IO in postgres?

2010-12-23 Thread John W Strange
Typically my problem is that the large queries are simply CPU bound.. do you have a sar/top output that you see. I'm currently setting up two FusionIO DUO @640GB in a lvm stripe to do some testing with, I will publish the results after I'm done. If anyone has some tests/suggestions they would

[PERFORM] Index Bloat - how to tell?

2010-12-14 Thread John W Strange
How can you tell when your indexes are starting to get bloated and when you need to rebuild them. I haven't seen a quick way to tell and not sure if it's being tracked. ___ | John

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-09 Thread John W Strange
6:09 AM To: Scott Marlowe Cc: Benjamin Krajmalnik; John W Strange; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 04:28, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Benjamin Krajmalnik > wrote: >> My biggest concern wi

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-08 Thread John W Strange
Ben, It would help if you could tell us a bit more about the read/write mix and transaction requirements. *IF* you are heavy writes I would suggest moving off the RAID1 configuration to a RAID10 setup. I would highly suggest looking at SLC based solid state drives or if your budget has legs, l