Re: Upgrade to dual processor machine?

Hi Justin,

here a little more information:

> - Processor type and speed
Intel Pentium IV, 1.6 GHz

> - Memory
1024 MB ECC-RAM

> - Disk configuration
2 x 60 GB IDE (Raid 0)

> - OS
Redhat Linux

>
> - Do you do other stuff on it, apart from PostgreSQL?
No, it's a dedicated database server

>
> - 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.

> - 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

So, what do you suggest to gain more performance?

Thanks in advance,

> Hi Henrik,
>
> It'd be helpful to know the other specifics of the server, and a bit
> about the workload the server has.
>
> i.e.
>
> - Processor type and speed
> - Memory
> - Disk configuration
> - OS
>
> - Do you do other stuff on it, apart from PostgreSQL?
>
> - How many clients simultaneously connecting to it?
> - What do the clients connect with? JDBC/ODBC/libpq/etc?
>
> - Have you configured the memory after installation of PostgreSQL, so
> it's better optimised than the defaults?
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> Henrik Steffen wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > will an upgrade to a dual processor machine
> > noticeably increase performance of a postgresql server?
> >
> > load average now often is about 4.0 - 8.5 - and I'll
> > have got to do something sooner or later...
> >
> > any help is appreciated...
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