Re: pg_restore performance on solaris 10/6

From: Thomas Burns <tombu(at)schoolloop(dot)com>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore performance on solaris 10/6
Date: 2006-08-03 00:05:05
Message-ID: D26FE896-B993-4178-B573-4670D978ED0C@schoolloop.com
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On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Thomas Burns wrote:
>
>> our database literally takes 8 times longer on the x4200 as it
>> does on
>> OS X (the x4200 hardware should be considerably faster -- it has
>> better
>
> for a restore like this, bump up the value of checkpoint_segments
> to some large value (I use 256 -- but I have a dedicated partition
> for the pg_xlog directory which gets big).

will give that a shot

>
> also, the normal tuning of the shared memory settings apply. how
> much RAM do you have and what kind of disks are you using?

I have 50000 shared buffers and 10000 temp buffers (the machine has
16G ram). The disks are new/fast SCSI drives

>
>

Thomas E. Burns
Co-Founder/CTO, Schoolloop.com
http://www.schoolloop.com
tombu(at)schoolloop(dot)com
415.255.7285

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