Re: how much ram do i give postgres?

From: Josh Close <narshe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: POSTGRES <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how much ram do i give postgres?
Date: 2004-10-20 19:09:54
Message-ID: 4a0cafe20410201209d0f497b@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:59:38 +0100, Gary Doades <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> Hmm, that seems a bit slow. How big are the rows you are inserting? Have you checked
> the cpu and IO usage during the inserts? You will need to do some kind of cpu/IO
> monitoring to determine where the bottleneck is.

The bulk inserts don't take full cpu. Between 40% and 80%. On the
other hand, a select will take 99% cpu.

>
> What hardware is this on? Sorry if you specified it earlier, I can't seem to find mention of
> it.

It's on a P4 HT with 1,128 megs ram.

-Josh

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