Re: [PERFORM] Areca 1260 Performance

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Wipf
On 6-Dec-06, at 5:26 PM, Ron wrote: At 06:40 PM 12/6/2006, Brian Wipf wrote: I appreciate your suggestions, Ron. And that helps answer my question on processor selection for our next box; I wasn't sure if the lower MHz speed of the Kentsfield compared to the Woodcrest but with double the

Re: [PERFORM] Areca 1260 Performance

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Wipf
-wise, you have lot's of 4S mainboard options, but the AMD 4C CPUs won't be available until sometime late in 2007. I've got other ideas, but this list is not the appropriate venue for the level of detail required. Ron Peacetree At 05:30 PM 12/6/2006, Brian Wipf wrote:

Re: [PERFORM] Areca 1260 Performance (was: File Systems Compared)

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Wipf
On 6-Dec-06, at 2:47 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: Hmmm. Something is not right. With a 16 HD RAID 10 based on 10K rpm HDs, you should be seeing higher absolute performance numbers. Find out what HW the Areca guys and Tweakers guys used to test the 1280s. At LW2006, Areca was demonstrating all

Re: [PERFORM] File Systems Compared

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Wipf
Hmmm. Something is not right. With a 16 HD RAID 10 based on 10K rpm HDs, you should be seeing higher absolute performance numbers. Find out what HW the Areca guys and Tweakers guys used to test the 1280s. At LW2006, Areca was demonstrating all-in-cache reads and writes of ~1600MBps and ~

Re: [PERFORM] [offtopic] File Systems Compared

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Wipf
On 6-Dec-06, at 9:05 AM, Alexander Staubo wrote: All tests are with bonnie++ 1.03a [snip] Care to post these numbers *without* word wrapping? Thanks. That's what Bonnie++'s output looks like. If you have Bonnie++ installed, you can run the following: bon_csv2html << EOF hulk4,64368M, 7862

[PERFORM] File Systems Compared

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Wipf
All tests are with bonnie++ 1.03a Main components of system: 16 WD Raptor 150GB 1 RPM drives all in a RAID 10 ARECA 1280 PCI-Express RAID adapter with 1GB BB Cache (Thanks for the recommendation, Ron!) 32 GB RAM Dual Intel 5160 Xeon Woodcrest 3.0 GHz processors OS: SUSE Linux 10.1 All run

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Wipf
On 5-Dec-06, at 4:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: shared_buffers can now be set as high as shmmax without getting the error message "could not create shared memory segment...". Now, however, when shared_buffers are set greater than 279212 a se

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Wipf
relying more on the kernel cache, the difference does not appear as significant as I thought. We currently have shared_buffers set to about 25% of system memory on our box where we are free to set it within the bounds of shmmax (not OS X, of course). Brian Wipf &l

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-26 Thread Brian Wipf
On 26-Nov-06, at 11:25 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:13:26PM -0700, Brian Wipf wrote: It certainly is unfortunate if Guido's right and this is an upper limit for OS X. The performance benefit of having high shared_buffers on our mostly read database is remarkable. Go

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-26 Thread Brian Wipf
e has tried and failed, they've not bothered to provide details on any PG list I read ... I'll post details of the problems I've had compiling for 64-bit on OS X Tiger to the pgsql-ports when I get a chance. Brian Wipf ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-18 Thread Brian Wipf
On 18-Nov-06, at 11:30 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I might get shared_buffers higher than 284263? My guess is something else has taken shared

[PERFORM] shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

2006-11-17 Thread Brian Wipf
67296 kern.sysv.shmmin: 1 kern.sysv.shmmni: 32 kern.sysv.shmseg: 8 kern.sysv.shmall: 1048576 Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I might get shared_buffers higher than 284263? Brian Wipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end o

Re: [PERFORM] Configuring System for Speed

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Wipf
I put all 16 drives in a RAID 10 for the database, where should I put the logs? On that large RAID set? If I use a RAID controller with a BB cache for the mirrored laptop drives, might I be able to use that for the logs and OS? Brian Wipf ---(end of broa

[PERFORM] Configuring System for Speed

2006-09-08 Thread Brian Wipf
it's hard to have a preference when you're new to the Linux world, like I am. Red Hat, Fedora Core, Slackware, Suse, Gentoo? I guess my primary goal is speed, stability, and ease of use. Any advice here, no matter how minimal, would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian Wipf -

Re: [PERFORM] Same query - Slow in production

2006-05-10 Thread Brian Wipf
is_active_and_status_idx index as on our backup server. Still not sure what's causing the differences in query execution between the servers, but at least the query is fast again. Brian On 10-May-06, at 4:39 PM, Brian Wipf wrote: I'm trying to determine why an identical query

[PERFORM] Same query - Slow in production

2006-05-10 Thread Brian Wipf
the same explain plan as the backup server, or can suggest anything I might want to try, I would greatly appreciate it. Brian Wipf ClickSpace Interactive Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here's the query: SELECT ac.attribute_id FROMattribute_category ac WHERE is_browsable = 'tru