Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-22 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:13 -0400, Ron wrote: > At 10:54 AM 8/21/2005, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:32 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > > > Ron wrote: > > > > > > Well, since you can get a read of the RAID at 150MB/s, that means that > &g

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-21 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:32 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Ron wrote: > > At 02:53 PM 8/20/2005, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:03 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > >> > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >> > > On

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:03 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > > > >>Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >> > > > ... > > >> > >>Well, in general, 3ms for a single l

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:59 -0400, Ron wrote: > At 04:11 PM 8/19/2005, Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:23 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > > > Ron wrote: > > > > At 01:18 PM 8/19/2005, John A Meinel wrote: > > > > > > > >> J

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
0 : 056k| 160k 2048M| 21 4 75 0 0 0 On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:07 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > Rebuild in progress with just ext3 on the raid array...will see if this > > helps the access times. If it doesn't I'll mess with the stri

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
a factor, but I really don't see it causing problems on index read speed esp. when it's not running. thanx for your help, I really appreciate it. -jj- On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:23 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Ron wrote: > > At 01:18 PM 8/19/2005, John A Meinel wrote:

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:23 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Ron wrote: > > At 01:18 PM 8/19/2005, John A Meinel wrote: > > > >> Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >> > Sorry about the formatting. > >> > > >> > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:55 -0500,

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > Sorry about the formatting. > > > > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:55 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > > > >>Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > >> > >> > >

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
Sorry about the formatting. On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:55 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > >here's an example standard query. Ireally have to make the first hit go > >faster. The table is clustered as well on full_name as well. 'Smith%'

Re: [PERFORM] I'm configuraing a new system (Bigish) and need some

2005-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
that took a little while to get through the system didn't it. Please ignore. > Ingrate, n.: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains > of indigestion. -- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson ---(en

[PERFORM] I'm configuraing a new system (Bigish) and need some advice.

2005-08-18 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
The system is a dual Xenon with 6Gig of ram and 14 73Gig 15K u320 scsi drives. Plus 2 raid 1 system dives. RedHat EL ES4 is the OS. Any1 have any suggestions as to the configuration? The database is about 60 Gig's. Should jump to 120 here quite soon. Mus of the searches involve people's names.

Re: [PERFORM] I'm configuraing a new system (Bigish) and need some advice.

2005-08-18 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
7.4 is the pg version BTWgoing to switch to 8 if it's worth it. Ingrate, n.: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion. -- "Don't say yes until I finish talking." -- Darryl F. Zanuck signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-18 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
n case_data (cost=0.00..5.29 rows=3 width=53) (actual time=0.017..0.020 rows=1 loops=4906) Index Cond: (('IL081025J'::text = (case_data.court_ori)::text) AND ((case_data.case_id)::text = ("outer".case_id)::text)) Total runtime: 694.639 ms (18 rows) On

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-18 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:21 -0500, John A Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > I just put together a system with 6GB of ram on a 14 disk raid 10 array. > > When I run my usual big painful queries, I get very little to know > > memory usage. My production box (raid 5 4GB

[PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-17 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
I just put together a system with 6GB of ram on a 14 disk raid 10 array. When I run my usual big painful queries, I get very little to know memory usage. My production box (raid 5 4GB ram) hovers at 3.9GB used most of the time. the new devel box sits at around 250MB. I've switched to an 8.0 syste

Re: [PERFORM] I'm configuraing a new system (Bigish) and need some advice.

2005-08-15 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
7.4 is the pg version BTWgoing to switch to 8 if it's worth it. Ingrate, n.: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion. -- "Don't say yes until I finish talking." -- Darryl F. Zanuck -- "Don't say yes until I finish talking."

Re: [PERFORM] name search query speed

2005-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
econd query. On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:26 -0600, Dave Held wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jeremiah Jahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:15 PM > > To: John A Meinel > > Cc: postgres performance > > Subje

Re: [PERFORM] name search query speed

2005-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Jeremiah, > > > I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very > > quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index > > is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones > > search

Re: [PERFORM] name search query speed

2005-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:46 -0600, John A Meinel wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn wrote: > > >I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very > >quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index > >is always used, but I still hit 10-20 sec

Re: [PERFORM] name search query speed

2005-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
that would bunch up the pages so the > names were more or less in order, which would improve search time. Just a > guess though. > > Ken > > - Original Message - > From: "Jeremiah Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "postgres performance"

[PERFORM] name search query speed

2005-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones search, and I average about 6 searches a second and max out at about 30/s. Any suggestions

Re: [PERFORM] cross table indexes or something?

2003-12-02 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
umn needs updating; I suggest: > > ALTER TABLE actor ALTER COLUMN full_name SET STATISTICS 100; > ANALYZE actor; > > And if it's still choosing a slow nested loop, up the stats to 250. -- Jeremiah Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadc

Re: [PERFORM] cross table indexes or something?

2003-12-01 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 16:32, Hannu Krosing wrote: > Jeremiah Jahn kirjutas K, 26.11.2003 kell 22:14: > > I was wondering if there is something I can do that would act similar to > > a index over more than one table. > > > > I have about 3 million people in my DB a

[PERFORM] cross table indexes or something?

2003-11-26 Thread Jeremiah Jahn
actor.actor_id)::text = ("outer".actor_id)::text) -> Index Scan using event_pkey on event (cost=0.00..5.83 rows=1 width=52) Index Cond: (("outer".event_id)::text = (event.event_id)::text) Filter: (event_date_time &g