Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-04-02 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Nicholay P. Chuprynin wrote: > > Hello, All! > Resently I had to create and manage the (relatively) large table. > In the mean time it's about 8 million rows, and surely will grow above > this size. > The problem is that queries takes absolutely not acceptable time. > Databa

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-30 Thread Nicholay P. Chuprynin
Thanks a lot! Although I wasn't clear enough in my questions I got pretty informative answers. Now I see, that I need faster hardware or to rethink the whole problem, which is somewhat cheaper and much more interesting. Thanks again for your answers. Nicholay ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
Fred Moyer wrote: > Your UDMA 33 bus will limit disk reads to 33 Mbytes/sec so there is your > first bottleneck. Get a 66 mhz PCI ide adapter (Promise is cheap) and that > will increase your disk speed dramatically. > Also you won't be able to do much with 128 Mb of ram, put in as much as you >

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Fred Moyer
x27;t forget to (man) hdparm to maximize your I/O. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:43 AM To: Nicholay P. Chuprynin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Nicholay P. Chuprynin writes: > Resently I had to create and manage the (relatively) large table. > In the mean time it's about 8 million rows, and surely will grow above > this size. > The problem is that queries takes absolutely not acceptable time. > Database located on average Celeron 400 mac

[ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Nicholay P. Chuprynin
Hello, All! Resently I had to create and manage the (relatively) large table. In the mean time it's about 8 million rows, and surely will grow above this size. The problem is that queries takes absolutely not acceptable time. Database located on average Celeron 400 machine with 128 Mb of RAM and