Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-03 Thread Thomas Spreng
On 2. Oct, 2008, at 10:00, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable. Did you consider using backport packages (http://www.backports.org) for Debian Etch? They are providing postgresql v.8.3.3 packages for Debian E

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-02 Thread paul
I played with work_mem and setting work_mem more than 256000 do not change the performance. I try to upgrade to 8.3 using etch-backports but it's a new install not an upgrade. So i have to create users, permissions, import data again, it scared me so i want to find another solutions first. But now

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-02 Thread Richard Huxton
Tommy Gildseth wrote: > Richard Huxton wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable. >> >> That's why backports.org was invented :-) >> Or does can't mean "not allowed to"? > > Well, running production servers from b

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-02 Thread Tommy Gildseth
Richard Huxton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable. That's why backports.org was invented :-) Or does can't mean "not allowed to"? Well, running production servers from backports can be a risky proposition too, an

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-02 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, > > Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable. That's why backports.org was invented :-) Or does can't mean "not allowed to"? > So i'm going to play with work_mem & shared_buffers. > > With big shared_buffers pgsql tells me > shm

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-02 Thread paul
Thanks, Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable. So i'm going to play with work_mem & shared_buffers. With big shared_buffers pgsql tells me shmget(cle=5432001, taille=11183431680, 03600). so i do "echo 13183431680 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax" ( 10Go + 2Go just in

Re: [PERFORM] dedicated server & postgresql 8.1 conf tunning

2008-10-01 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I'm running pgsql 8.1.11 (from debian stable) on a server with 16GB RAM > (Linux helios 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 19 04:30:56 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux). Unless you're committed to this version, I'd seriously look into 8.3 from backports (or compiled you