Re: [PERFORM] Config review

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > If you are using a RAID configuration it might just be that you need > to adjust the configuration (IIRC, there are some RAID setups that > are not very write-friendly). Otherwise you may have little alternative > but to buy faster disks.

Re: [PERFORM] Config review

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bryan Vest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Currently the database is at a size of 87.6Gig. A Vacuum Analyze runs every >> night and has been taking 4 or 5 hours to complete. Everything seems to run >> fine for a while, then at some point the load goes through

Re: [PERFORM] Config review

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Stark
Bryan Vest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently the database is at a size of 87.6Gig. A Vacuum Analyze runs every > night and has been taking 4 or 5 hours to complete. Everything seems to run > fine for a while, then at some point the load goes through the roof and the > iowait % also goes way

[PERFORM] Config review

2004-12-06 Thread Bryan Vest
Postgresql is the backbone of our spam filtering system. Currently the performance is OK. Wanted to know if someone could give this config a quick run down and see if there is anything we can adjust here to smooth out the performance. The IO Wait Times are outrageous, at times the load will spi