Re: Sustained inserts per sec ... ?

From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sustained inserts per sec ... ?
Date: 2005-04-05 01:31:38
Message-ID: 59d991c405040418314b860fca@mail.gmail.com
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On Apr 4, 2005 6:44 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Before I start to tunnel-vision on a particular coincidence...
>
> How much memory have you got on the system?

Now, 2Gb, but most of it is free in this situation. Earlier, I posted
some of the settings related to work mem.

> How much of that have you allocated to various tasks?

Do you mean inside PostgreSQL?

> What else is happening on your system?

sshd, that's it :-)

> Tell us more about disk set-up and other hardware related things.
> Disk cache...disk speed...seek times....etc

Sure, here's the system configuration:

* AMD64/3000
* 2GB RAM (was 1GB, has made no difference)
* 1 x 120GB SATA drive (w/WAL), 7200RPM Seagate
* 1 x 160GB SATA drive (main), 7200RPM Seagate

Chris
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