Re: optimizing selects on time-series data in Pg

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Aditya <aditya(at)grot(dot)org>
Cc: sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: optimizing selects on time-series data in Pg
Date: 2003-08-01 18:05:22
Message-ID: 200308011105.22146.josh@agliodbs.com
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Aditya,

> shared_buffers = 128 # 2*max_connections, min 16 (default 64)
> ...
> #effective_cache_size = 1000 # default in 8k pages

You could certainly stand to raise these, unless your system is low on RAM ...

> PIII-800/512MB RAM running FreeBSD 4-STABLE with the database data files
> NFS mounted via a 100Mbps/full-duplex private network from a lightly-loaded
> Network Appliance F87 fileserver (I'm pretty certain that we're not IO
> bound).

Mind checking TOP to see how much RAM your other processes on this server eat?
That will give us a good baseline for figuring out how much memory to give
Postgres.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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