Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>>I had a request from one of the SF-PUG members that I found
>>interesting. She suggested that we post the specs of some of the
>>PostgreSQL servers that we administrate, their statistics, and some
>>comments on how they perform. I'll start it off with an example:
>>
>>Small Cheap Workgroup Server
>>AMD Athalon 700mhz
>>256mb SDRAM
>>Dual 20gb 7200rpm IDE Drives (1 IBM, 1 Quantum)
>> with OS, Apache, XLog on 1st drive,
>> Postgres Database, Swap on 2nd drive
>>Running SuSE Linux 7.3
>> Apache 1.3.x
>> PHP 4.0.x
>> PostgreSQL 7.1.3
>>3-8 concurrent users on intranet application
>>with large transactions but low transaction frequency
>>(est. 20-300 reads and 5-80 writes per hour)
>>on small database (< 20,000 records combined in main tables)
>>
>>Performance assessment: Adequate, reasonably fast
>>on selects except aggregates, commits taking 5-20 seconds
>>during medium activity. Same system with a Celeron 500
>>previously demonstrated horrible performance (often > 45 seconds
>>on selects) on complex queries, such as one view with
>>custom aggregates.
>
>
> Oh, and I forgot:
>
> shared_buffers 4096
> sort_mem 2048
> wal_files 8
> wal_sync_method = fdatasync
Hi Josh,
Want to CVS checkout the latest OSDB source code (http://www.sf.net/projects/osdb), generate say a 100MB database and
do
a multiuser test of 20 or so users on it?
:-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
> -Josh
>
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