From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | Henrik Steffen <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de> |
Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Upgrade to dual processor machine? |
Date: | 2002-11-12 17:22:54 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211111001270.22944-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Henrik Steffen wrote:
> > - How many clients simultaneously connecting to it?
> one webserver with max. 50 instances, approximately 10.000 users a day,
> about 150.000 Pageviews daily. All pages are created on the fly using
> mod_perl connecting to the db-server.
If you've got 50 simos, you could use more CPUs, whether your I/O bound or
not.
> > - What do the clients connect with? JDBC/ODBC/libpq/etc?
> I am using Pg.pm --- this is called libpq, isn't it?
>
> > - Have you configured the memory after installation of PostgreSQL, so
> > it's better optimised than the defaults?
> no - what should I do? Looking at 'top' right now, I see the following:
> Mem 1020808K av, 1015840K used, 4968K free, 1356K shrd, 32852K buff
Hey, what is the "cached" field saying there? Is the machine caching a
whole bunch or just a little? If it's caching a whole bunch, look at
increasing your shmmax shmall settings and then the shared buffers in
postgresql.conf for better performance.
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