Re: [PERFORM] RAID card recommendation

2009-11-24 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
- "Richard Neill" escreveu: > Matthew Wakeling wrote: > > > > We're about to purchase a new server to store some of our old > databases, > > and I was wondering if someone could advise me on a RAID card. We > want > > to make a 6-drive SATA RAID array out of 2TB drives, and it will be > R

Re: [PERFORM] RAID card recommendation

2009-11-24 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
- "Scott Marlowe" escreveu: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ing. Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda > wrote: > > Do you expose that performance issued caused by RAID 5? Because this > is one > > of our solutions here on my country to save the data of our > PostgreSQL > > database. Which model do you

Re: [PERFORM] Air-traffic benchmark

2010-01-07 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
Hello - "Lefteris" escreveu: > Hi all, > > following the simple but interesting air-traffic benchmark published > at: > http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/02/analyzing-air-traffic-performance-with-infobright-and-monetdb/ Quite interesting test, if you have the time to download all

Re: [PERFORM] Air-traffic benchmark

2010-01-07 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
- "Lefteris" escreveu: > > Did you ever try increasing shared_buffers to what was suggested > (around > > 4 GB) and see what happens (I didn't see it in your posts)? > > No I did not to that yet, mainly because I need the admin of the > machine to change the shmmax of the kernel and also beca

Re: [PERFORM] Air-traffic benchmark

2010-01-07 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
- "Matthew Wakeling" escreveu: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Gurgel, Flavio wrote: > Postgres does not change a query plan according to the shared_buffers > > setting. It does not anticipate one step contributing to another step > in > this way. It does however make use

Re: [PERFORM] Air-traffic benchmark

2010-01-07 Thread Gurgel, Flavio
- "Scott Marlowe" escreveu: > You do know that indexes in postgresql are not "covering" right? > I.e. > after hitting the index, the db then has to hit the table to see if > those rows are in fact visible. So there's no such thing in pgsql, > at > the moment, as an index only scan. That w