Re: Best replication solution?

From: Lists <lists(at)on-track(dot)ca>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: ries van Twisk <typo3(at)rvt(dot)dds(dot)nl>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best replication solution?
Date: 2009-04-07 03:44:20
Message-ID: 49DACC14.3050601@on-track.ca
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I'm currently running 32bit FreeBSD so I can't really add more ram (PAE
doesn't work well under FreeBSD from what I've read) and there are
enough writes that more ram won't solve the problem completely.

However I will add plenty more ram next time I rebuild it.

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Lists wrote:
>> Server is a dual core xeon 3GB ram and 2 mirrors of 15k SAS drives (1
>> for most data, 1 for wal and a few tables and indexes)
>>
>> In total all databases on the server are about 10G on disk (about 2GB
>> in pgdump format).
>
> I'd suggest buying as much RAM as you can fit into the server. RAM is
> cheap, and with a database of that size more cache could have a
> dramatic effect.
>

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