Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Alex Turner wrote: I would recommend running a bonnie++ benchmark on your array to see if it's the array/controller/raid being crap, or wether it's postgres. I have had some very surprising results from arrays that theoretically should be fast, but turned out to be very slow. I would also seriousl

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
gure out how to put different tables on different partitions. Thanks. Arshavir Also a note for interest is that this is _software_ raid... Alex Turner netEconomist On 13 Mar 2005 23:36:13 -0500, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arshavir Grigorian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I ha

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-14 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Josh Berkus wrote: A, This is a Sun e450 with dual TI UltraSparc II processors and 2G of RAM. It is currently running Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27-sparc64-smp custom compiled kernel. Postgres is installed from the Debian package and uses all the configuration defaults. Please read http://www.powerp

[PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-13 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
ccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAG3091L SUN9.0G Rev: Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- Arshavir Grigorian Systems Administrator/Engineer ---(end of broa

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-11 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Many thanks for all the response. I guess there are a lot of things to change and tweak and I wonder what would be a good benchmarking sample dataset (size, contents). My tables are very large (the smallest is 7+ mil records) and take several days to load (if not weeks). It would be nice to have

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-11 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Tom Lane wrote: Arshavir Grigorian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a RAID5 array (mdadm) with 14 disks + 1 spare. This partition has an Ext3 filesystem which is used by Postgres. Currently we are loading a 50G database on this server from a Postgres dump (copy, not insert) and are experi

[PERFORM] Postgres on RAID5

2005-03-11 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAG3091L SUN9.0G Rev: Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- Arshavir Grigorian Systems Administrator/Engineer ---(end of broa

Re: [PERFORM] index use

2004-11-19 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Thanks for all the replies. It actually has to do with the locales. The db where the index gets used is running on C vs the the other one that uses en_US.UTF-8. I guess the db with the wrong locale will need to be waxed and recreated with correct locale settings. I wonder if there are any plans

[PERFORM] index use

2004-11-19 Thread Arshavir Grigorian
Hi, I have a query that when run on similar tables in 2 different databases either uses the index on the column (primary key) in the where clause or does a full table scan. The structure of the tables is the same, except that the table where the index does not get used has an extra million rows