Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-04 Thread Denis Lussier
I agree that OCFS 2.0 is NOT a general purpose PG (or any other) solution.  My recollection is that OCFS gave about 15% performance improvements (same as setting some aggressive switches on ext3).   I assume OCFS has excellent crash safety with its default settings but we did not test this as of ye

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Denis Lussier") writes: > I have no personal experience with XFS, but, I've seen numerous > internal edb-postgres test results that show that of all file > systems... OCFS 2.0 seems to be quite good for PG update intensive > apps (especially on 64 bit machines). I have been cur

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-03 Thread Milen Kulev
Title: Nachricht Hi Dennis, I am just cusrios to try PG with different block sizes ;)  I don't know how much performance the bigger block size will bring (I mean 32k or 64k , for example, for DWH applikations). I am surprised to hear that OCFS2.0 (or any her FS usind direct I/O) performs

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-02 Thread Denis Lussier
I was kinda thinking that making the Block Size configurable at InitDB time would be a nice & simple enhancement for PG 8.3.  My own personal rule of thumb for sizing is 8k for OLTP, 16k for mixed use, & 32k for DWH. I have no personal experience with XFS, but, I've seen numerous internal edb-postg

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-01 Thread Luke Lonergan
Milen, On 8/1/06 3:19 PM, "Milen Kulev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, forgot to ask: > What is the recommended/best PG block size for DWH database? 16k, 32k, 64k > ? > What hsould be the relation between XFS/RAID stripe size and PG block size ? We have found that the page size in PG st

FW: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-01 Thread Milen Kulev
Sorry, forgot to ask: What is the recommended/best PG block size for DWH database? 16k, 32k, 64k ? What hsould be the relation between XFS/RAID stripe size and PG block size ? Best Regards. Milen Kulev -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf