Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-16 Thread Evgeniy Shishkin
> On 16 Dec 2014, at 14:51, Graeme B. Bell wrote: > >> >> I don't understand the logic behind using drives, >> which are best for random io, for sequent io workloads. > > Because they are also best for sequential IO. I get 1.3-1.4GB/second from 4 > SSDs in RAID or >500MB/s for single disk sy

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-16 Thread Graeme B. Bell
> > I don't understand the logic behind using drives, > which are best for random io, for sequent io workloads. Because they are also best for sequential IO. I get 1.3-1.4GB/second from 4 SSDs in RAID or >500MB/s for single disk systems, even with cheap models. Are you getting more than that f

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-15 Thread Graeme B. Bell
> Very much agree with this. Because SSD is fast doesn't make it suited for > certain things, and a streaming sequential 100% write workload is one of > them. I've worked with everything from local disk to high-end SAN and even > at the high end we've always put any DB logs on spinning disk.

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:02, Andrea Suisani wrote: On 12/10/2014 11:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: 2- I would like to use the two SDD to store the wal file. Do you think it is useful or how should I use them? I definitely would give it a try. I don&#

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Eric Pierce
From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org on behalf of Evgeniy Shishkin Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:11 AM To: Andrea Suisani Cc: mfatticci...@mbigroup.it; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration >

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Andrea Suisani
On 12/11/2014 01:11 PM, Evgeniy Shishkin wrote: On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:02, Andrea Suisani wrote: On 12/10/2014 11:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: 2- I would like to use the two SDD to store the wal file. Do you think it is useful or how should I use them? I definitely would give it a try.

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Andrea Suisani
Would you mind to explain me better why you do suggest me to use the sas raid for wal please? SSDs are known to shine when they have to deal with random access pattern rather than sequential, on the other hand 10/15K rpm SAS disk is known to be better for sequential io workloads (in general "r

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Maila Fatticcioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2014 01:11 PM, Evgeniy Shishkin wrote: > >> On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:02, Andrea Suisani >> wrote: >> >> On 12/10/2014 11:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: >>> 2- I would like to use the two SDD to store the wal file. Do >>> you think it is usefu

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Evgeniy Shishkin
> On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:02, Andrea Suisani wrote: > > On 12/10/2014 11:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: >> 2- I would like to use the two SDD to store the wal file. Do you think >> it is useful or how should I use them? > > I definitely would give it a try. > I don't understand the logic behi

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Andrea Suisani
On 12/10/2014 11:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I need to tune a postgres installation I've just made to get a better performance. I use two identical servers with a hot replication configuration. The two servers have the following hardware:

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-11 Thread Maila Fatticcioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/2014 06:47 PM, Patrick Krecker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni > wrote: Hello. I need to tune a postgres > installation I've just made to get a better performance. I use two > identical servers with a hot replicat

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-10 Thread Patrick Krecker
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > I need to tune a postgres installation I've just made to get a better > performance. I use two identical servers with a hot replication > configuration. The two servers have the

[PERFORM] Tuning the configuration

2014-12-10 Thread Maila Fatticcioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I need to tune a postgres installation I've just made to get a better performance. I use two identical servers with a hot replication configuration. The two servers have the following hardware: Dual Processor Intel Xeon E5-2640V2 20Mb cache 2.0