Re: [ADMIN] ident authentication over tcp

2009-12-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:18 -0600, Peter Koczan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, wrote: > > This looks like you have no ident server running... > > > > I guess you must install it first in recent distros, as there is not much > > use of ident anymore. So you have to search the packages fo

Re: [ADMIN] Where to find information on the new HOT tables?

2008-02-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > > I don't think such a document already exists, even rtfm_please doesn't > > > know > > > about any as of now. > > The reason there isn't one is it doesn't need one; it's an > > implementation detail not a user-visible feature. > One reason to think it needs to be explained is that it affects

Re: [ADMIN] Where to find information on the new HOT tables?

2008-02-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
TOH, I think a paragraph explaining how HOT causes performance to differ from previous versions would be sufficient. It isn't really a user, or even an admin, tunable AFAIK. It is just an inherent good in the current version - but since it was mentioned allot in release announcements it meri

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql and net-snmp

2008-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> How-to monitor pgsql ? > ( considering the server's general statistics and events are already > covered : > cpu usage, memory usage, shutdown and reboot events, unplanned down > time ) > - i have got a net-snmp at service > - i have got an event listener too ( traplistener + event-rules) htt

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: physical memory

2008-01-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Mmaybe it is off topic but is LVM available in Windows (xp?)? Yes. > Or have I to buy a specific tool? Which one? Just use the standard disk / volume management tools included under Computer Management. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consult

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and virtualization

2007-08-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>I'd like to do some tests with replication, high availability, ... > with PostgreSQL. The problem I have is I don't have enough hardware to > do such tests, so I'd like to use virtualization. I'd like to do it > using linux. Nowadays there several products to do it Xen, Qemu, VMware, > ...

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Postgres VS Oracle

2007-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
nds) of dollars. > They may well have a lot to fear, but that doesn't mean they do; > anything statement in that area is pure assumption. Yep, and the 90-95% number is straight out-of-the-air. And I believe that exactly 17 angels can dance on the head of a pin. -- Adam Tauno Willia

Re: [ADMIN] A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ing wrong? because the swap it's almost > empty You are misunderstanding what these numbers mean on a UNIX system. For starters - http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html And if you are not swapping, and your OS's cache is that huge, why bot

Re: [ADMIN] High Avaliable in the PostgreSQL.

2007-05-30 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
nd servers, large UPSs, and generators. It is just extremely expensive. :) -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [ADMIN] increasing of the shared memory does not solve the problem of "OUT of shared memory"

2007-05-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
t; Is this message appropriate to the real cause of the problem or the > reason of the failure is actually other than what is displayed in this > message? > Maybe you've got an application that is doing a BEGIN WORK, but never doing a rollback or commit? -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network &a