Re: [PERFORM] [PATCHES] [HACKERS] ARC Memory Usage analysis

2004-10-31 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: As a result, I was intending to inflate the value of effective_cache_size to closer to the amount of unused RAM on some of the machines I admin (once I've verified that they all have a unified buffer cache). Is that correct? Effective cache size is IMHO a "bogus" param

Re: [PERFORM] Speeding up Gist Index creations

2004-10-31 Thread Josh Berkus
Mallah, > Gist indexes take a long time to create as compared > to normal indexes is there any way to speed them up ? > > (for example by modifying sort_mem or something temporarily ) More sort_mem will indeed help. So will more RAM and a faster CPU. Our GIST-index-creation process is probably

[PERFORM] Speeding up Gist Index creations

2004-10-31 Thread mallah
Hi , Gist indexes take a long time to create as compared to normal indexes is there any way to speed them up ? (for example by modifying sort_mem or something temporarily ) Regds Mallah. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore yo

[PERFORM] Thanks Chariot Solutions

2004-10-31 Thread brew
Many thanks to Chariot Solutions, http://chariotsolutions.com, for hosting Bruce Momjian giving one of his PostgreSQL seminars outside of Philadelphia, PA yesterday. There were about sixty folks there, one person driving from Toronto and another coming from California (!). I found it very enlight

Re: [PERFORM] psql large RSS (1.6GB)

2004-10-31 Thread Markus Bertheau
Ð ÐÑÐ, 27.10.2004, Ð 09:57, TTK Ciar ÐÐÑÐÑ: > brad=# explain analyse select > ServerDisks.servername,ServerDisks.diskserial,ServerDisks.diskmountpoint,DiskFiles.name,DiskFiles.md5 > from DiskFiles,ServerDisks where DiskFiles.diskserial=ServerDisks.diskserial; > QUERY PL