[PERFORM] Configuring System for Speed

2006-09-08 Thread Brian Wipf
I am in the process of speccing out a new box for a highly utilized (updates, inserts, selects) 40GB+ database. I'm trying to maximize performance on a budget, and I would appreciate any feedback on any of the following. Hardware: 2 - Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz 4MB 1333MHz 8 - Kingston 4GB DDR

Re: [PERFORM] Configuring System for Speed

2006-09-08 Thread Luke Lonergan
Brian, I like all of the HW - I just thoroughly reviewed this and came to the same HW choices you did. The new SuperMicro chassis is an improvement on one we have used for 21 servers like this. One modification: we implemented two internal 60GB laptop hard drives with an additional 3Ware 8006-2L

[PERFORM] Performance in a 7 TB database.

2006-09-08 Thread Nuno Alexandre Alves
Hi, I have a customer who wants a database solution for a 7 TB database. Insert will be the main action in the database. There are some case studies with detail information about performance and hardware solution on this database size? What are the minimum hardware requirements for this kind o

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with postgresql and some SAS raid-figures

2006-09-08 Thread Dave Cramer
Hi, Arjen, On 8-Sep-06, at 1:51 AM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Hi, We've been running our "webapp database"-benchmark again on mysql and postgresql. This time using a Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 S3 machine equipped with a 2.66Ghz Woodcrest (5150) and a 3.73Ghz Dempsey (5080). And compared t

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Dave Cramer wrote: Hi, Arjen, The Woodcrest is quite a bit faster than the Opterons. Actually... With Hyperthreading *enabled* the older Dempsey-processor is also faster than the Opterons with PostgreSQL. But then again, it is the top-model Dempsey and not a top-model Opteron so that isn't a

[PERFORM] Performance problem with joins

2006-09-08 Thread fardeen memon
Hi i have a severe performance problem with one of my views which has 6 to 8 joins .. any help will be appreciated.. the view is: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW thsn.trade_view AS SELECT tra.tra_id, tra.per_id, tra.fir_id, tra.tra_dcn, tra.tra_startdate::date AS tra_startdate, tra.tra_enddate::date AS

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with postgresql and some SAS raid-figures

2006-09-08 Thread Dave Cramer
On 8-Sep-06, at 8:44 AM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Dave Cramer wrote: Hi, Arjen, The Woodcrest is quite a bit faster than the Opterons. Actually... With Hyperthreading *enabled* the older Dempsey- processor is also faster than the Opterons with PostgreSQL. But then again, it is the top

Re: [PERFORM] Configuring System for Speed

2006-09-08 Thread alvis
Brian Wipf wrote: I am in the process of speccing out a new box for a highly utilized (updates, inserts, selects) 40GB+ database. I'm trying to maximize performance on a budget, and I would appreciate any feedback on any of the following. Perhaps this is off topic, but here is bit from my exp

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problem with joins

2006-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
fardeen memon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is it that i am doing wrong? I think the forced coercion to date type in the view case is preventing the planner from making a good guess about the selectivity of the condition on tra_date. It has stats about tra_date's distribution, but none about

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Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 8-9-2006 15:01 Dave Cramer wrote: But then again, systems with the Woodcrest 5150 (the subtop one) and Opteron 280 (also the subtop one) are about equal in price, so its not a bad comparison in a bang-for-bucks point of view. The Dempsey was added to show how both the Opteron and the newer

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Arjen van der Meijden wrote: > On 8-9-2006 15:01 Dave Cramer wrote: >> >>> But then again, systems with the Woodcrest 5150 (the subtop one) and >>> Opteron 280 (also the subtop one) are about equal in price, so its >>> not a bad comparison in a bang-for-bucks point of view. The Dempsey >>> was adde

Re: [PERFORM] Performance in a 7 TB database.

2006-09-08 Thread Jeff Davis
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:30 +0100, Nuno Alexandre Alves wrote: > Hi, > > I have a customer who wants a database solution for a 7 TB database. > Insert will be the main action in the database. > > There are some case studies with detail information about performance > and hardware solution on thi

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 8-9-2006 18:18 Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: interesting - so this is a mostly CPU-bound benchmark ? Out of curiousity have you done any profiling on the databases under test to see where they are spending their time ? Yeah, it is. We didn't do any profiling. We had a Sun-engineer visit us t