Re: Problems with PG 9.3

From: Dhruv Shukla <dhruvshukla82(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, "jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com" <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problems with PG 9.3
Date: 2014-08-25 16:24:38
Message-ID: CAFiWeJAn7+cSvipqoxysDPk2ny5xAEXDCL9y9if3pMEhxFsHnw@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-admin

Kevin,
Currently we have a max connection setting for 1000 connections.

And RAM on server is 384GB RAM.

4 Octa core CPU hyperthreaded so total 64 cores.

-Dhruv

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> Dhruv Shukla <dhruvshukla82(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Other informational details about configurations are:
>
> > shared_buffers = 80GB
> > temp_buffers = 2GB
> > work_mem = 2GB
> > maintenance_work_mem = 16GB
>
> Well, at the default max_connections of 100 that could easily
> result in the server trying to allocate about 567GB of RAM. If
> your number of connections is more than 100, adjust proportionally
> higher. If the server doesn't have that, you could see extreme
> swapping or various other problems as the OS tries to survive.
>
> > effective_cache_size = 130GB
>
> And the planner will be generating plans based on the assumption
> that the combination of shared_buffers and the OS cache will have
> this much RAM available for caching, so if you have max_connections
> = 100 this configuration would only make sense on a machine with
> RAM of 617GB or more, plus whatever is needed for the OS and
> anything besides PostgreSQL that you want to run on the machine.
>
> How much RAM is on the machine (or VM)?
>
> --
> Kevin Grittner
> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>

--
Regards
Dhruv
404-551-2578

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-admin by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Dhruv Shukla 2014-08-25 16:33:11 Re: Problems with PG 9.3
Previous Message Kevin Grittner 2014-08-25 15:51:07 Re: Problems with PG 9.3