Re: Most effective tuning choices for busy website? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Weimann
Subject Re: Most effective tuning choices for busy website?
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Msg-id 20050614235937.GA97567@tektite.k12usa.internal
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In response to Most effective tuning choices for busy website?  (Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On 06/01/2005-07:19PM, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
>  - I saw the hardware tip to "Separate the Transaction Log from the
>    Database". We have about 60% SELECT statements and 14% UPDATE
>    statements. Focusing more on SELECT performance seems more important
>    for us.
>

I would think that would help SELECT If the spindle isn't busy writing
Transaction log it can be reading for your SELECTs.

You did say you were CPU bound though.

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