Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1
Date: 2007-03-02 16:50:46
Message-ID: 1172854246.20651.210.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:03, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net> wrote:
> > At 10:16 AM 3/2/2007, Alex Deucher wrote:

> > d= you went from local HD IO to a SAN
> > (many differences hidden in that one line... ...and is the physical
> > layout of tables and things like pg_xlog sane on the SAN?)
> >
> >
> > ...and you did this by just pulling over the old DB onto the new HW?
> >
>
> We rebuild the DB from scratch on the new server. Same table
> structure though. We reloaded from the source material directly.

I would REALLY recommend testing this machine out with a simple software
RAID-1 pair of SCSI or SATA drives just to eliminate or confirm the SAN
as the root problem.

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