Re: slow building index and reference after Sybase to Pg - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: slow building index and reference after Sybase to Pg
Date
Msg-id 201102282356.50428.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: slow building index and reference after Sybase to Pg  (Gary Fu <gfu@sigmaspace.com>)
Responses Re: slow building index and reference after Sybase to Pg
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Hi,

On Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:11:19 AM Gary Fu wrote:
> wal_buffers = 16MB
sensible
> checkpoint_segments = 256
A setting that high seems unlikely to be beneficial... I suggest you configure
log_checkpoints to monitor this.

> effective_cache_size = 30GB
Not likely to matter in this case.

> maintenance_work_mem = 2GB
1GB is the max value taking effect.

I would also suggest setting
wal_sync_method=fdatasync

You haven't configured shared_buffers at all? I would suggest setting it to 2GB
or such.


Andres

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