Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-06 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:42:57AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > fsm_pages = 200,000 ??? Based this on some statistics about the number > > of pages freed from a vacuum on older server. Not sure if its fair > > to calculate this based on vacuum stats of 7.3.4 server? > > > > Might as well make i

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Lonsdale
] Sent: 04 December 2006 23:29 To: Mark Lonsdale Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server On 4-Dec-06, at 12:10 PM, Mark Lonsdale wrote: Hi We are migrating our Postgres 7.3.4 application to postgres 8.1.5 and also

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Dave Cramer
On 4-Dec-06, at 12:10 PM, Mark Lonsdale wrote: Hi We are migrating our Postgres 7.3.4 application to postgres 8.1.5 and also moving it to a server with a much larger hardware configuration as well.The server will have the following specification. - 4 physical CPUs (hypert

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:57, Joshua Marsh wrote: > > On 12/4/06, Mark Lonsdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 – Figured Id allocate 1GB for > this. > > > > Do you know how often and when you will be creating indexes or > clustering?

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Joshua Marsh
On 12/4/06, Mark Lonsdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 – Figured Id allocate 1GB for this. Do you know how often and when you will be creating indexes or clustering? We set ours to 2GB because of the performance gains. We've also thought about testing it at 4GB.

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Mark Lonsdale wrote: - 4 physical CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) i'd tend to disable hyperthreading on Xeons... shared_buffers – 50,000 - >From what Id read, increasing this number higher than this wont have any advantages ? if you can, increase it until you

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:10 -0500, Mark Lonsdale wrote: > - 4 physical CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) > > - 32 GB RAM > > - x86_64 architecture > > - RedHat AS 4 > > - postgres 8.1.5 > > > > Ive been taking a look at the various postgres tuning parameters, and > have come up with the following

[PERFORM] Configuration settings for 32GB RAM server

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Lonsdale
Hi We are migrating our Postgres 7.3.4 application to postgres 8.1.5 and also moving it to a server with a much larger hardware configuration as well.The server will have the following specification. - 4 physical CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) - 32 GB RAM - x86_64 architecture