Re: [PERFORM] High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

2004-07-18 Thread Gaetano Mendola
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whole config is available here: http://ludojad.itpp.pl/~eleven/pg-high-load.conf effective_cache_size = 4000 # typically 8KB each #random_page_cost = 4 # units are one sequential page fetch cost #cpu_tuple_cost = 0.01 # (same) #cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.

Re: [PERFORM] High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

2004-06-29 Thread Josh Berkus
Eleven, > In particular - could someone tell me if those iostat > values can tell if I'm close to upper performance boundary > of fast SCSI (Ultra 320, 15k RPM) disks? It's quite possible that you need to improve your disk array; certainly I would have spec'd a lot more disk than you're using (

Re: [PERFORM] High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

2004-06-29 Thread eleven
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Marc wrote: > > Performance issue, I'm experiencing here, is somewhat > > weird - server gets high average load (from 5 up to 15, > > 8 on average). Standard performance monitoring > > utilities (like top) show that CPUs are not loaded > > (below 20%, ofte

Re: [PERFORM] High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

2004-06-29 Thread Marc
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:55:37 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Performance issue, I'm experiencing here, is somewhat > weird - server gets high average load (from 5 up to 15, > 8 on average). Standard performance monitoring > utilities (like top) show that CPUs are not loaded >

[PERFORM] High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

2004-06-29 Thread eleven
Hello, I'm using PostgreSQL 7.4.2 (package from backports.org) on a Debian (woody) box. The machine is IBM eServer 345 with two 2.8 Xeon CPUs, it has 1024MB of RAM and two 15k RPM SCSI disks running in hardware RAID1, which is provided by the onboard LSI Logic controller (LSI53C1030). The databa