Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..

William Yu wrote:

> Dave Cramer wrote:
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>> William Yu wrote:
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>>> amrit(at)health2(dot)moph(dot)go(dot)th wrote:
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>>>> I will try to reduce shared buffer to 1536 [1.87 Mb].
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>>> 1536 is probaby too low. I've tested a bunch of different settings
>>> on my 8GB Opteron server and 10K seems to be the best setting.
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>> Be careful here, he is not using opterons which can access physical
>> memory above 4G efficiently. Also he only has 4G the 6-10% rule still
>> applies
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> 10% of 4GB is 400MB. 10K buffers is 80MB. Easily less than the 6-10%
> rule.
>
Correct, I didn't actually do the math, I refrain from giving actual
numbers as every system is different.

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>>> To figure out your effective cache size, run top and add free+cached.
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>> My understanding is that effective cache is the sum of shared
>> buffers, plus kernel buffers, not sure what free + cached gives you?
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> Not true. Effective cache size is the free memory available that the
> OS can use for caching for Postgres. In a system that runs nothing but
> Postgres, it's free + cached.

You still need to add in the shared buffers as they are part of the
"effective cache"

Dave

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