Re: [PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-19 Thread Tim Allen
ult, as it is in production and the customer has a very low tolerance for downtime. Just a dump of my thought process from someone who's been spending too much time tuning his SAN and postgres lately. Thanks for all the suggestions, John. I'll keep trying to follow s

Re: [PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-19 Thread Tim Allen
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:50, Tim Allen wrote: We have a customer who are having performance problems. They have a large (36G+) postgres 8.1.3 database installed on an 8-way opteron with 8G RAM, attached to an EMC SAN via fibre-channel (I don't have details of the EM

Re: [PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-18 Thread Tim Allen
Jeff Trout wrote: On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Tim Allen wrote: One curious thing is that some postgres backends seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in uninterruptible iowait state. I found a posting to this list from December 2004 from someone who reported that very same thing. For

Re: [PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-16 Thread Tim Allen
Tim Allen wrote: We have a customer who are having performance problems. They have a large (36G+) postgres 8.1.3 database installed on an 8-way opteron with 8G RAM, attached to an EMC SAN via fibre-channel (I don't have details of the EMC SAN model, or the type of fibre-channel card a

[PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-15 Thread Tim Allen
We have a customer who are having performance problems. They have a large (36G+) postgres 8.1.3 database installed on an 8-way opteron with 8G RAM, attached to an EMC SAN via fibre-channel (I don't have details of the EMC SAN model, or the type of fibre-channel card at the moment). They're runn

[PERFORM] partial indexes and inference

2006-03-19 Thread Tim Allen
of the query planner, in that it doesn't realise that the partial index is all it needs here? Or is something else going on that is leading the cost estimation astray? Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [PERFORM] Default autovacuum settings too conservative

2006-02-08 Thread Tim Allen
which is hosted on the same database server. I don't know what "70 lac" means. One lac (also spelt "lakh") is one hundred thousand. And one crore is ten million. Indians count differently from the rest of the world :-). Tim -- --------