Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/05/2014 18:17, Sean Chittenden wrote: >> I did some tests with zfs, and results where appallingly bad, but that was >> with db size > ram. >> > >> > I think the model used by PostgreSQL, as most databases, are very disk >> > block centric. Using zfs makes it hard to get good performance.

Re: FreeBSD 10 and PostgreSQL 9.3 scalability issues

2014-03-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/18/14 03:12, Petr Janda wrote: > ust want to share these pgbench results done by DragonFlyBSD, and would > like some input on why these numbers look so bad and what can be done to > improve (ie. kernel tunables etc) the performance. > > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachmen

Re: ZFS Few Questions

2011-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/11/2011 19:04, Mark Felder wrote: >> Question 3: >> Anyone Recommend for MySQL server? (Performance) > > No idea; I haven't run any SQL servers on ZFS The sort of randomly located small IOs that RDBMSes do is the hardest sort of IO pattern for ZFS (or any filesystem for that matter) to mana

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Gatten wrote: OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it up with "a storage subsystem is only as fast as its slowest link" It's not just the bal