Re: Filesystem and PG configuration

From: Andreas Schmitz <mailinglist(at)longimanus(dot)net>
To: RBN <rbn(dot)ggl(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Filesystem and PG configuration
Date: 2010-06-07 06:31:11
Message-ID: 4C0C922F.6010306@longimanus.net
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Hi,

pgtune could be the thing you're looking for.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/

regards

andreas

RBN wrote:
>
>
> Can someone suggest some appropriate initial configuration parameters
> and shared memory settings for the following hardware?
>
> I'm running Debian on a Dell with 4x6 core CPU and 128GB memory and
> writing to a coraid with 9 x 32GB SSDs RAID 10 using jfs with 8
> drives active and 1 as spare.
>
> I'm considering changing to xfs. I'm not sure what block size to use
> for the file system, is 8192 appropriate? The OS page size is 4096.
>
> The database is both write and read intensive, with about 750MB of new
> data added per week and old deleted every six months to one year.
>
>
>

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