Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread William Carney
I tested the LAN connection by transferring around some large (150 MByte) files, and got consistent transfer rates of about 10 MBytes/second in both directions without any problems, which is what I would expect. Netstat says that there are no errors, so I think that the ethernet is working OK. May

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:50, William Carney wrote: > Hello, > > Using a test client application that performs 10 insert operations on a > table, with the client application running on the same machine as the > Postgres server, I get the following results for the time taken to run the > test: >

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Jeff
On Jul 23, 2004, at 3:57 AM, William Carney wrote: I tested the LAN connection by transferring around some large (150 MByte) files, and got consistent transfer rates of about 10 MBytes/second in both directions without any problems, which is what I would expect. Netstat says It would be interest

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Michael Adler
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:20:54PM +0930, William Carney wrote: > But with the server running on one machine and the client running on > another, the two machines being connected by a 100 Mb ethernet, with nothing > else on the network, this test takes 17 minutes to run. I have tried > changing th

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Gary Cowell
--- William Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The test program is a C program with embedded SQL > (ecpg). The only > difference between the tests was the address used in > the EXEC SQL CONNECT > .. statement. The inserts are committed to the > database by performing an > EXEC SQL COMMIT after e

Re: [PERFORM] Performance over a LAN

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Stark
"William Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The machines used are P4s running FreeBSD 5.2.1. The Postgres version is > 7.4.3. Can anyone tell me why there's such a big difference? You're going to have to run tcpdump and see where the delays are. It might be hard to decode the postgres protoco

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: | Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |>In this plan it estimates to get 481 but it got 22477. So the estimation |>was very wrong. You can increase the statistics tarhet on the login_time |>and it will probably be better (afte

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Gaetano Mendola wrote: Tom Lane wrote: | Given the nature of the data (login times), I'd imagine that the problem | is simply that he hasn't analyzed recently enough. A bump in stats | target may not be needed, but he's going to have to re-analyze that | column often if he wants this sort of query

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Jaime Casanova
Hi all, just as a question. There will be some day a feature that let you force the planner to use an specific index, like oracle does? Of course the planner is smart enough most times but sometimes such an option would be usefull, don't you think so? Thanx in advance, Jaime Casanova _

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:51, Jaime Casanova wrote: > Hi all, > > just as a question. > > There will be some day a feature that let you force > the planner to use an specific index, like oracle > does? > > Of course the planner is smart enough most times but > sometimes such an option would be us

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: | Gaetano Mendola wrote: | |> Tom Lane wrote: |> | Given the nature of the data (login times), I'd imagine that the |> problem |> | is simply that he hasn't analyzed recently enough. A bump in stats |> | target may not be nee

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Wrong index choosen?

2004-07-23 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Gaetano Mendola wrote: Well I think pg_autovacuum as is in 7.4 can not help me for this particular table. The table have 4.8 milions rows and I have for that table almost 10252 new entries for day. I'm using pg_autovacuum with -a 200 -A 0.8 this means a threashold for that table equal to: 3849008