On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:10:28AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > effective_cache_size = 27462# `sysctl -n
> > vfs.hibufspace` / 8192 (BLKSZ)
> > random_page_cost = 2
>
> You misunderstand how effective_cache_size is used. It's the *only*
> mem
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Willo van der Merwe wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > On 8/29/06, Willo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> and it has 743321 rows and a explain analyze select count(*) from
> >> property_values;
> >>
> >
> > you have a number of options:
> All good ideas and I
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Mikael Carneholm wrote:
>
> >
> >> There are two SCSI U320 buses, with seven bays on each. I don't know
> > what the overhead of SCSI is, but you're obviously not going to get >
> > 490MB/s for each set of seven even if the FC could do it.
> >
>
> You sh
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> If I'm reading the original post correctly, the biggest issue is likely
> to be that the 14 disks on each 2Gbit fibre channel will be throttled to
> 200Mb/s by the channel , when in fact you could expect (in RAID 10
> arrangement) to get about 7 * 70 Mb/
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> We're going to get one for evaluation next week (equipped with dual
> 2Gbit HBA:s and 2x14 disks, iirc). Anyone with experience from them,
> performance wise?
We (Seatbooker) use one. It works well enough. Here's a sample bonnie
output:
Cache, Wired, Buf and Free - it'll come to more than
your physical memory.
Active gives an amount of physical memory. Buf gives an amount of
kernel-space virtual memory which provide the kernel with a window on to
pages in the other categories. In fact, I don't think that 'Buf' re
t
sure about. It doesn't represent that amount of memory used to cache files
on disk, I'm sure of that. The sysctl -d description is 'KVA memory used
for bufs', so I suspect that it's the amount of kernel virtual address
space mapped to pages in the 'active', '
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Meetesh Karia wrote:
> PG is creating the union of January, February and March tables first and
> that doesn't have an index on it. If you're going to do many queries using
> the union of those three tables, you might want to place their contents into
> one table and create an
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Matt Clark wrote:
> > And this is exactly where the pgpool advantage lies.
> > Especially with the
> > TPC-W, the Apache is serving a mix of PHP (or whatever CGI
> > technique is
> > used) and static content like images. Since the 200+ Apache
> > kids serve
> > any of that cont
