On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Jason Coene wrote:
I'm wondering why our PG server is using so little memory... The
system has
2GB of memory, though only around 200MB of it are used. Is there a PG
setting to force more memory usage towards the cache? Additionally,
we use
FreeBSD. I've heard
pg_autovacuum is a daemon, not something that get's run twice a day.
I think that's what the question Matthew was getting @. I'm not sure
what would happen to performance if pg_autovacuum was launched twice a
day from cron, but you could end up in an ugly situation if it starts
up.
--brian
I've been using the adaptec ZCR raid cards in our servers for a while
now, mostly small systems with 3 or 6 disks, and we've been very happy
with them. However, we're building a new DB machine with 14 U320 15K
SCA drives, and we've run into a performance bottlenkeck with the ZCR
card where
it seems like the difference is probably related to caching. you say
you have 1gb of ram, and the database is 2gb.Obviously the entire
database isn't cached, but maybe your query runs fast when the table is
in memory, and they it gets swapped out of cache because some other
piece of
