On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Steve Crawford
<scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> Bryan White wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> The new server is a dual socket Nahalem. 8 cores, 16 threads, 48 GB
>> ram, 2 WAL drives in RAID1 and 12 database drives in RAID10.
>>
>
> I would try setting -j higher - in your case try 8 for starters. Also turn
> off fsync and autovacuum (and turn them back on !!!). See these and more
> tips at:
> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/using-84-parallel-restore-with-your-83-or-82-database-31575
>
Success. The -j6 run completed. The time to restore went from 152
minutes to 45 minutes. I was already doing some of the things on the
above page. I plan on implementing others and than do a few test runs
to find the optimal number of jobs.
Thanks!
--
Bryan White
