Re: [PERFORM] Samsung 32GB SATA SSD tested

2008-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Strangely the RAID controller behaves badly on the TPC-B workload. It >> is faster than disk, but not by a lot, and it's much slower than th

Re: [PERFORM] Perl/DBI vs Native

2008-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In case someone is wondering, the way to force DBI to use unix >> sockets is by not specifying a host and port in the connect call. > > Actually, the host defaults to the local socket. Using the port > may still be n

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > >> Their firmware is, frankly, garbage. In more than one instance we >> have had the card panic when a disk fails, which is obviously counter >> t

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > >> But most recently in my memory we had an Areca HBA which, when one of its >> WD RE-2 disks failed, completely stopped responding to both the com

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-11 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jeff wrote: > >> I've got a couple boxes with some 3ware 9550 controllers, and I'm less >> than pleased with performance on them.. Sequential access is nice, but start >> seeking around and you kick it in

Re: [PERFORM] Practical upper limits of pgbench read/write tps with 8.3

2008-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > >> On the single 2.2GHz Athlon, the maximum tps seems to be 1450...what's the >> bottleneck? Is PG lock-bound? > > It can become lock-bound i

[PERFORM] Practical upper limits of pgbench read/write tps with 8.3

2008-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Baker
I'm spending a third day testing with the ioDrive, and it occurred to me that I should normalize my tests by mounting the database on a ramdisk. The results were surprisingly low. On the single 2.2GHz Athlon, the maximum tps seems to be 1450. This is achieved with a single connection. I/O rates

Re: [PERFORM] Fusion-io ioDrive

2008-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Service Time Percentile, millis >>>R/W TPS R-O TPS 50th 80t

Re: [PERFORM] Fusion-io ioDrive

2008-07-04 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently got my hands on a device called ioDrive from a company > called Fusion-io. The ioDrive is essentially 80GB of flash on a PCI > card. [...] >Service Time

Re: [PERFORM] Fusion-io ioDrive

2008-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/07/2008, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Red Hat and its clones. The other problem is the 80GB model is too >> small to hold my entire DB, Although it could be use

[PERFORM] Fusion-io ioDrive

2008-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Baker
I recently got my hands on a device called ioDrive from a company called Fusion-io. The ioDrive is essentially 80GB of flash on a PCI card. It has its own driver for Linux completely outside of the normal scsi/sata/sas/fc block device stack, but from the user's perspective it behaves like a block

Re: [PERFORM] Quad Xeon or Quad Opteron?

2008-05-24 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Andrzej Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We're planning new production server for PostgreSQL and I'm wondering > which processor (or even platform) will be better: Quad Xeon or Quad > Opteron (for example SUN now has a new offer Sun Fire X4440 x64)

Re: [PERFORM] Update performance degrades over time

2008-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Subbiah Stalin-XCGF84 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We are doing some load tests with our application running postgres 8.2.4. At > times we see updates on a table taking longer (around > 11-16secs) than expected sub-second response time. The table in ques

Re: [PERFORM] SELECT 'DBD::Pg ping test'

2008-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:19 AM, sathiya psql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This query is being executed nearly a million times >SELECT 'DBD::Pg ping test' Something in your Perl application is use $dbh->ping(). See perldoc DBI. It's possible that this is happening un

Re: [PERFORM] 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table

2008-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: [PERFORM] 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table

2008-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Jeffrey Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This autovacuum has been hammering my serv

Re: [PERFORM] 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table

2008-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jeffrey Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This autovacuum has been hammering my server with purely random i/o > > for half a week. The table is only 20GB and the i/o subsystem is g

[PERFORM] 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table

2008-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Baker
This autovacuum has been hammering my server with purely random i/o for half a week. The table is only 20GB and the i/o subsystem is good for 250MB/s sequential and a solid 5kiops. When should I expect it to end (if ever)? current_query: VACUUM reuters.value query_start: 2008-04-15 20:12:48.8068

Re: [PERFORM] seq scan issue...

2008-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM, kevin kempter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List; > > I have a large tble (playback_device) with 6million rows in it. The > aff_id_tmp1 table has 600,000 rows. > - why am I still getting a seq scan ? > You're selecting almost all the rows in the product of aff

Re: [PERFORM] Strange behavior: pgbench and new Linux kernels

2008-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in the case of this simple benchmark, I see an enormous performance > regression from the newest Linux kernel compared to a much older one. This has been discussed recently on linux-kernel. It's definitely a regression.

Re: [PERFORM] Anybody using the Dell Powervault MD3000 array?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:17:10 -0400 > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Thinking about buying the Powervault

[PERFORM] Anybody using the Dell Powervault MD3000 array?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Thinking about buying the Powervault MD3000 SAS array with 15 15k 300GB disks for use as a postgres tablespace. Is anyone using these (or other LSI/Engenio rebadge jobs?). I'm interested in hearing about performance of the array, and problems (if any) with Dell's SAS HBA that comes bundled. Also