Re: [PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kevin Schroeder wrote: Ignoring the fact that the sort and vacuum numbers are really high, this is what Solaris shows me when running top: Memory: 2048M real, 1376M free, 491M swap in use, 2955M swap free Maybe check the swap usage with 'swap -l' which reports reliably if any (device or file) sw

[PERFORM] Swapping on Solaris

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Schroeder
Hello, I'm running PostgreSQL on a Solaris 8 system with 2GB of RAM and I'm having some difficulty getting PostgreSQL to use the available RAM. My RAM settings in postgresql.conf are shared_buffers = 8192 # min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each sort_mem = 131072 # min

Re: [PERFORM] Disk configuration

2005-01-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Benjamin, > I just wanted to bounce off the list the best way to configure disks for a > postgresql server. My gut feeling is as follows: > > Keep the OS and postgresql install on seperate disks to the postgresql > /data directory? > Is a single hard disk drive acceptable for the OS and postgresql

[PERFORM] Disk configuration

2005-01-18 Thread Benjamin Wragg
I just wanted to bounce off the list the best way to configure disks for a postgresql server. My gut feeling is as follows:   Keep the OS and postgresql install on seperate disks to the postgresql /data directory? Is a single hard disk drive acceptable for the OS and postgresql program, or

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problem from migrating between versions!

2005-01-18 Thread Kaloyan Iliev Iliev
Hi, I try it and it doesn't resolve the problem:( So, now what? To leave it that way for this query or There must be permanent solution because if other queries behave like that? Kaloyan Iliev Tom Lane wrote: Kaloyan Iliev Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will ANALYZE res

Re: [PERFORM] Increasing RAM for more than 4 Gb. using postgresql

2005-01-18 Thread Nicolai Petri (lists)
This must be a linux'ism because to my knowledge FreeBSD does not keep the os-cache mapped into the kernel address space unless it have active objects associated with the data. And FreeBSD also have a default split of 3GB userspace and 1GB. kernelspace when running with a default configuration.

Re: [PERFORM] Increasing RAM for more than 4 Gb. using postgresql

2005-01-18 Thread Martin Tedjawardhana
Why dont you just grab the latest stable kernel from kernel.org, customize it, compile it and the see what happens? On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:35:12 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that the 2.6.* kernels are much better at large memory > > support (with respect to