Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-05 Thread Mischa Sandberg
Regarding Raid5 at all, you might want to look at http://www.baarf.com Stephane Tessier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think with your help guys I'll do it! I'm working on it! I'll work on theses issues: we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-02 Thread Stephane Tessier
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 juillet, 2004 23:00 To: Stephane Tessier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE A furthur thought or two: - you are *sure* that it is Postgres that is slow? (could be Php...or your machine

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-02 Thread James Thornton
Stephane Tessier wrote: I checked and we have a 128 megs battery backed cache on the raid controller... we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility of 3 gigs) iowait is very high 98% -- look like postgresql wait for io access raid5 --raid0 if i'm right raid5 use 4 writes(parity,data,

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-02 Thread Stephane Tessier
oups, i changed for RAID 10(strip and mirror) -Original Message- From: James Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2 aout, 2004 17:32 To: Stephane Tessier Cc: 'Scott Marlowe'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE Stephane

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-02 Thread markir
It may be worth pricing up expansion options e.g. 256M or more. The other path to consider is changing RAID5 - RAID10 if your card supports it. However, I would recommend reducing that shared_buffers setting and doing your performance measurements *again* - before changing anything else. This is

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 juillet, 2004 23:00 To: Stephane Tessier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE A furthur thought or two: - you are *sure

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Jeff
On Jul 28, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Stephane Tessier wrote: we have a BIG problem of performance,it's slow Can you isolate which part is slow? (log_min_duration is useful for finding your slow running queries) we use postgres 7.3 for php security application with approximately 4 millions of

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Stephane Tessier
day -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 juillet, 2004 23:00 To: Stephane Tessier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE A furthur thought or two: - you are *sure

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
Stephane wrote: Hi everyone,   somebody can help me??? my boss want to migrate to ORACLE #fsync = true [snip] Are you using battery baked RAID? Your problem is probably due to the database syncing all the time. With fsync one, you get 1 sync per transaction that

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 juillet, 2004 23:00 To: Stephane Tessier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE A furthur thought or two: - you are *sure* that it is Postgres that is slow? (could be Php...or your

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Stephane Tessier wrote: I think with your help guys I'll do it! I'm working on it! I'll work on theses issues: we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility of 3 gigs) iowait is very high 98% -- look like postgresql wait for io access raid5 --raid0 if i'm right raid5 use 4

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Stephane Tessier wrote: I think with your help guys I'll do it! I'm working on it! I'll work on theses issues: we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility of 3 gigs) iowait is very high 98% -- look like postgresql wait for

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Brian Hirt
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

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephane Tessier), an earthling, wrote: I think with your help guys I'll do it! I'm working on it! I'll work on theses issues: we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility of 3 gigs) That _may_ help; not completely clear.

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:22, Christopher Browne wrote: After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephane Tessier), an earthling, wrote: I think with your help guys I'll do it! I'm working on it! I'll work on theses issues: we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-29 Thread Russell Smith
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:08 am, Stephane Tessier wrote: Hi everyone, somebody can help me??? my boss want to migrate to ORACLE we have a BIG problem of performance,it's slow we use postgres 7.3 for php security application with approximately 4 millions of insertion by

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-29 Thread markir
Quoting Stephane Tessier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: General parameter suggestions: shared_buffers = 128000 # min max_connections*2 or 16, 8KB each effective_cache_size = 196608 # typically 8KB each Try reducing shared_buffers (say 3). There has been much discussion regards setting this

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-07-29 Thread markir
A furthur thought or two: - you are *sure* that it is Postgres that is slow? (could be Php...or your machine could be out of some resource - see next 2 points) - is your machine running out of cpu or memory? - is your machine seeing huge io transfers or long io waits? - are you running Php on