Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-19 Thread Dani Oderbolz
Chris Gamache wrote: What's your thought on creating some type of calibration applet that will divine proper settings for the PostgreSQL performance related variables by taking into consideration the speed of the machine, amount of RAM, access time of the filesystem, and the speed of various queri

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread Tim Middleton
On June 18, 2003 12:54 pm, Chris Gamache wrote: > What's your thought on creating some type of calibration applet that > will divine proper settings for the PostgreSQL performance related Have you seen pg_autotune? It's aging... but might be something to play with. http://gborg.postgresql.org/pr

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread matt
Precisely. Any hints from the real gurus out there as to how that might be accomplished (or alternatively, reasons why it's hopeless)? On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:42, scott.marlowe wrote: > It would be nice to have something that could suggest settings for the > different *cost* options. > > On 18

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread scott.marlowe
It would be nice to have something that could suggest settings for the different *cost* options. On 18 Jun 2003, matt wrote: > Are there really any performance settings of much interest beyond the > shared and non-shared memory settings? Beyond those the interactions > get so complex that autom

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread matt
Are there really any performance settings of much interest beyond the shared and non-shared memory settings? Beyond those the interactions get so complex that automation is probably impossible anyway, and certain options like fsync = false should never be 'recommended'. On the other hand, a way o

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure, it would be great if we could do it. If the program actually derives reliable numbers, it would be great. It could easily do more harm than good if it gives bogus results. I think it will be very hard to get reliable rather than bogus results :-( .

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Sure, it would be great if we could do it. --- Chris Gamache wrote: > What's your thought on creating some type of calibration applet that will > divine proper settings for the PostgreSQL performance related variables by > t

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Gamache
What's your thought on creating some type of calibration applet that will divine proper settings for the PostgreSQL performance related variables by taking into consideration the speed of the machine, amount of RAM, access time of the filesystem, and the speed of various queries on a standardized (