Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > With the price of GigE adapters I wouldn't consider anything else. > > I have a huge database that takes about an hour to copy. The netApp snapshot > feature is very nice because I can get a "moment in time" image of the > database. Even though I can't run from the sn

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-17 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On January 16, 2004 11:53 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Monday, January 12, 2004 13:45:45 -0800 Shankar K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > We are considering to use NetApp filer for a highly > > busy 24*7 postgres database and the reason we chose > I run a (not very busy) PG cluster on a NetAPP.

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-16 Thread Rod Taylor
> I'd appreciate if anyone could share your experience > in configuring things on the filer for optimal > performance or any recomendataion that i should be > aware of. Netapps are great things. Just beware that you'll be using NFS, and NFS drivers on many operating systems have been known to be

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-16 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, January 12, 2004 13:45:45 -0800 Shankar K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi There, We are considering to use NetApp filer for a highly busy 24*7 postgres database and the reason we chose netapp, mostly being the "snapshot" functionality for backing up database online. The filer would

[PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-16 Thread Shankar K
Hi There, We are considering to use NetApp filer for a highly busy 24*7 postgres database and the reason we chose netapp, mostly being the "snapshot" functionality for backing up database online. The filer would be mounted on a rh linux server (7.3), 4g RAM, dual cpu with a dedicated card for file