Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 17 Srpen 2011, 21:22, Ogden wrote: >> This is a very important point. I've found on most machines with >> hardware caching RAID and 8 or fewer 15k SCSI drives it's just as >> fast to put it all on one big RAID-10 and if necessary partition it to >> put the pg_xlog on its own file system. Afte

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Ogden
On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> >> I think you've mentioned the database is on 6 drives, while the other >> volume is on 2 drives, right? That makes the OS drive about 3x slower >> (just a rough estimate). But if the d

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > > I think you've mentioned the database is on 6 drives, while the other > volume is on 2 drives, right? That makes the OS drive about 3x slower > (just a rough estimate). But if the database drive is used heavily, it > might help to move the

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Ogden
On Aug 17, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 17 Srpen 2011, 18:39, Ogden wrote: >>> Yes, but it greatly depends on the amount of WAL and your workload. If >>> you >>> need to write a lot of WAL data (e.g. during bulk loading), this may >>> significantly improve performance. It may also h

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 17 Srpen 2011, 18:39, Ogden wrote: >> Yes, but it greatly depends on the amount of WAL and your workload. If >> you >> need to write a lot of WAL data (e.g. during bulk loading), this may >> significantly improve performance. It may also help when you have a >> write-heavy workload (a lot of cli

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Ogden
On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 17 Srpen 2011, 3:35, Ogden wrote: >> Hope all is well. I have received tremendous help from this list prior and >> therefore wanted some more advice. >> >> I bought some new servers and instead of RAID 5 (which I think greatly >> hindered our

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 17 Srpen 2011, 16:28, Ogden wrote: > I was wondering what the best parameters would be with my new setup. The > work_mem obviously will increase as will everything else as it's a 64Gb > machine as opposed to a 16Gb machine. The configuration I posted was for > a 16Gb machine but this new one is

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 17 Srpen 2011, 3:35, Ogden wrote: > Hope all is well. I have received tremendous help from this list prior and > therefore wanted some more advice. > > I bought some new servers and instead of RAID 5 (which I think greatly > hindered our writing performance), I configured 6 SCSI 15K drives with

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Ogden
On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Andy Colson wrote: > On 8/16/2011 8:35 PM, Ogden wrote: >> Hope all is well. I have received tremendous help from this list prior and >> therefore wanted some more advice. >> >> I bought some new servers and instead of RAID 5 (which I think greatly >> hindered our

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-17 Thread Andy Colson
On 8/16/2011 8:35 PM, Ogden wrote: Hope all is well. I have received tremendous help from this list prior and therefore wanted some more advice. I bought some new servers and instead of RAID 5 (which I think greatly hindered our writing performance), I configured 6 SCSI 15K drives with RAID 10

[PERFORM] Tuning Tips for a new Server

2011-08-16 Thread Ogden
Hope all is well. I have received tremendous help from this list prior and therefore wanted some more advice. I bought some new servers and instead of RAID 5 (which I think greatly hindered our writing performance), I configured 6 SCSI 15K drives with RAID 10. This is dedicated to /var/lib/pgs