Re: go for a script! / ex: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

On 09/10/2003 09:29 Oliver Scheit wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I followed the discussion and here are my 0.2$:
>
> I think instead of thinking about where to put the
> information about tuning, someone should provide a
> "pgsql-autotune". Maybe even a shell script would do the
> trick.
>
> It's not so hard to find out, how much memory is installed,
> and IMHO SHARED_BUFFERS, SORT_MEM and EFFECTIVE_CACHE_SIZE
> depend heavily on this. a "cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax"
> would give some valuable information on linux boxes,
> there is probably other stuff for different OSes.
>
> random_page_cost could be set after probing the harddisks,
> maybe even do a hdparm -tT if they seem to be ATA, not SCSI.
>
> Now, let's pretend the script finds out there is 1 GB RAM,
> it could ask something like "Do you want to optimize the
> settings for postgres (other applications may suffer from
> having not enough RAM) or do you want to use moderate
> settings?"
>
> Something like this, you get the idea.

ISR reading that 7.4 will use a default of shared_beffers = 1000 if the
machine can support it (most can). This alone should make a big difference
in out-of-the-box performance.

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