Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 15:26 schrieb Tom Lane: > ... if all tuples are the same size, and if you never have any > transactions that touch enough tuples to overflow your undo segment > (or even just sit there for a long time, preventing you from recycling > undo-log space; this is the dual

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2003-10-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "AL" == Allen Landsidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AL> I recently built a rather powerful machine to be used in a heavily AL> accessed database.. the machine is a dual AthlonMP 2800+, 2GB of AL> PC2100 ECC, and a 4x18GB RAID-0 using 15k rpm fujitsu MAS drives on a AL> 4ch u160 ICP-Vortex ca

Re: [PERFORM] slow select

2003-10-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JB" == Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> Medora, >> Increasing effective_cache_size to 1 did it. JB> That would be 78MB RAM. If you have more than that available, you can JB> increase it further. Ideally, it should be about 2/3 to 3/4 of available JB> RAM. Assuming you

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "RN" == Rob Nagler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RN> Vivek Khera writes: >> AMI or Adaptec based? RN> Adaptec, I think. AIC-7899 LVD SCSI is what dmidecode says, and RN> Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Aug 18 2003 is what comes up when it Cool. No need to diddle with it, then. The Adaptec

Re: [PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Treat wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:27, Will LaShell wrote: > > > Also, I cannot find any list of packages included in Enterprise Linux > > 2.1 / > > > 3. Does anyone know if PostgreSQL is included and if so, what version? > > > > You have two options as I understand it for PG under RHE

Re: [PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Will LaShell
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:44, Robert Treat wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:27, Will LaShell wrote: > > > Also, I cannot find any list of packages included in Enterprise Linux > > 2.1 / > > > 3. Does anyone know if PostgreSQL is included and if so, what version? > > > > You have two options as I u

Re: [PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:27, Will LaShell wrote: > > Also, I cannot find any list of packages included in Enterprise Linux > 2.1 / > > 3. Does anyone know if PostgreSQL is included and if so, what version? > > You have two options as I understand it for PG under RHEL. You can > install the PG sour

Re: [PERFORM] RAID controllers etc... was: PostgreSQL data on aNAS

2003-10-23 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Alexander Priem wrote: > I have been searching (www.lsil.com) for this megaraid_2 driver you > mentioned. > > What kind of MegaRaid card does the Perc4/Di match? Elite1600? Elite1650? > > I picked Elite1600 and the latest driver I found was version 2.05.00. Is > this one OK

Re: [PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Will LaShell
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:40, Alexander Priem wrote: > Hi guys, > > This basically continues the other thread about the PERC4 RAID controller, > but since it is a bit off-topic I thought to start another thread. Thanks > for all your help so far :) > > Earlier today I read about the newly releas

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Nagler
Tom Lane writes: > ... if all tuples are the same size, and if you never have any Incorrect. If the tuples smaller, Oracle does the right thing. If there's enough space in the page, it shifts the tuples to make room. That's what pctfree, pctused and pctincrease allow you to control. It's all in

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Maybe, but only if it actually had reason to use a ton of memory --- > that is, it were recycling a very large number of tuples in a single > table. IIRC that didn't seem to be the case here. Ah, that's what I was trying to ask. I di

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2003-10-23 Thread Allen Landsidel
Asked and answered on the list probably a thousand times, but what else is there to discuss on the performance list? :) I recently built a rather powerful machine to be used in a heavily accessed database.. the machine is a dual AthlonMP 2800+, 2GB of PC2100 ECC, and a 4x18GB RAID-0 using 15k r

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think oracle does not do garbage collect, it overwrites the tuples directly > and stores the old tuples in undo buffers. Since most transactions are > commits, this is a big win. ... if all tuples are the same size, and if you never have any transact

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:27:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> trace. What is causing that? Not VACUUM I don't think. It doesn't have >> any huge memory demand. But swapping out processes could account for > What about if you've set vacuum_mem too hi

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:27:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > trace. What is causing that? Not VACUUM I don't think. It doesn't have > any huge memory demand. But swapping out processes could account for What about if you've set vacuum_mem too high? A -- Andrew Sullivan

[PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Alexander Priem
Hi guys, This basically continues the other thread about the PERC4 RAID controller, but since it is a bit off-topic I thought to start another thread. Thanks for all your help so far :) Earlier today I read about the newly released RedHat Enterprise Linux ES version 3. This version should inclu

Re: [PERFORM] RAID controllers etc... was: PostgreSQL data on aNAS device ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alexander Priem
I have been searching (www.lsil.com) for this megaraid_2 driver you mentioned. What kind of MegaRaid card does the Perc4/Di match? Elite1600? Elite1650? I picked Elite1600 and the latest driver I found was version 2.05.00. Is this one OK for RedHat 9? The README file present only mentions RedHat8