Re: tuning our database by increasing shared buffer

Hello Again

Here is the end output from a vacuum verbose on one of the databases. What exactly am I looking for. If I am reading the correctly then I am ok with the current settings.

INFO: free space map contains 2667 pages in 22 relations
DETAIL: A total of 3008 page slots are in use (including overhead).
3008 page slots are required to track all free space.
Current limits are: 153600 page slots, 1000 relations, using 965 kB.

John Allgood
Senior Systems Administrator
Turbo, division of OHL
2251 Jesse Jewell Pky. NE
Gainesville, GA 30507
tel: (678) 989-3051 fax: (770) 531-7878

jallgood(at)ohl(dot)com
www.ohl.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Glyn Astill [mailto:glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:46 AM
To: Barbara Stephenson; Tom Lane; Allgood, John
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tuning our database by increasing shared buffer

Run a vacuum verbose and look at the output at the end.

Word is that as of 8.4 these parameters will autotune themselvs.

--- On Wed, 24/6/09, Allgood, John <jallgood(at)ohl(dot)com> wrote:

> From: Allgood, John <jallgood(at)ohl(dot)com>
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tuning our database by increasing shared buffer
> To: "Barbara Stephenson" <barbara(at)turbocorp(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Wednesday, 24 June, 2009, 2:34 PM
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> Hello All
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> I am working with  Barbara
> on this project and I am curios about
> what would be a good starting place for setting the
> max_fsm_relations and
> max_fsm_pages. Here are the current values max_fsm_pages =
> 153600 and the
> max_fsm_relations is set to the default of 1000. I have
> have read that the
> output from vacuum can help determine the values. We are
> using the autovacuum
> daemon. Is there some logging from that process that could
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> Turbo,
> division of OHL
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> Jesse Jewell Pky. NE
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> GA 30507
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> www.ohl.com
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> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:43 PM
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> To: Tom Lane
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> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
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> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tuning our database by
> increasing shared buffer
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> Barbara Stephenson <barbara(at)turbocorp(dot)com>
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> be consolidating from 4 databases to 2 and want to make sure
> that  these parameters are the only ones
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> Current                                                       
> Future=====                                                         
> =====Max_connection =
> 50                                   
> 125Shared_buffers =
> 16MB                                 
> 48MB   
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>  You will need to make sure that the
> FSM size parameters are correct forthe combined
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> we increase the max_locks_per_transaction from 64 to 100 or
> 128 since we have more than doubled the # of
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> beencalled max_locks_per_connection
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> is set at default of 5 which is says if we use it
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> setting that to zero to make sure nobody creates a
> preparedtransaction accidentally.  You do
> *not* want anyone doing PREPARETRANSACTION unless
> there's an XA manager or something in place to
> makesure the prepared xact gets committed or
> rolled back reasonably soon.
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> regards, tom lane   
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>  Barbara
> StephensonEDI
> Specialist/ProgrammerTurbo, division of
> OHL2251 Jesse Jewell
> PkwyGainesville, GA 
> 30507tel: (678)989-3020 fax:
> (404)935-6171barbara(at)turbocorp(dot)comwww(dot)ohl(dot)com
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