Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit [was on HACKERS list] - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Doug Knight
Subject Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit [was on HACKERS list]
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Msg-id 1200416720.4742.6.camel@arc-dknightlx.wsicorp.com
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Responses Re: Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit [was on HACKERS list]
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All,
I have been asked to move this thread to the performance list. Below is the full discussion to this point.

Doug Knight
WSI Corp
Andover, MA

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From: Doug Knight <dknight@wsi.com>
To: munir.usama@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tuning Postgresql on Windows XP Pro 32 bit
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:09:16 -0500

We tried reducing the memory footprint of the postgres processes, via shared_buffers (from 30000 on Linux to 3000 on Windows), max_fsm_pages (from 2000250 on Linux to 100000 on Windows), max_fsm_relations (from 20000 on Linux to 5000 on Windows), and max_connections (from 222 on Linux to 100 on Windows). Another variable we played with was effective_cache_size  (174000 on Linux, 43700 on Windows). None of these reduced memory usage, or improved performance,  significantly. We still see the high page fault rate too. Other things we tried were reducing the number of WAL buffers, and changing the wal_sync_method to opendata_sync, all with minimal effect. I've attached the latest version of our Windows postgresql.conf file.

Doug



On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:49 +0500, Usama Dar wrote:
Doug Knight wrote:
> We are running the binary distribution, version 8.2.5-1, installed on 
> Windows XP Pro 32 bit with SP2. We typically run postgres on linux, 
> but have a need to run it under windows as well. Our typical admin 
> tuning for postgresql.conf doesn't seem to be as applicable for windows.


So what have you tuned so far? what are your current postgresql settings 
that you have modified? What are your system specs for Hardware, RAM , 
CPU etc?


On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 18:23 +0500, Usama Dar wrote:


On Jan 3, 2008 8:57 PM, Doug Knight <dknight@wsi.com> wrote:
All,
Is there a place where I can find information about tuning postgresql running on a Windows XP Pro 32 bit system? I installed using the binary installer. I am seeing a high page fault delta and total page faults for one of the postgresql processes. Any help would be great.



Which version of postgres? the process you are seeing this for is a user process?



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