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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:47:10 -0600
From:      Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>
To:        usleepless@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4
Message-ID:  <442D6B1E.6020107@123.com.sv>
In-Reply-To: <c39ec84c0603302202t6c820af2l10c30cda2ae96093@mail.gmail.com>
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usleepless@gmail.com wrote:

>Miguel,
>
>  
>
>>>you are not inserting into an indexed table, are you?
>>>      
>>>
>>yes, i am...
>>is that a problem?
>>    
>>
>
>it used to be a problem, but since your gentoo box is doing the same
>task in 4-5 minutes, i doubt it is currently the problem.
>
>i seem to recall some speedup of the copyin-command in one of the
>latest releases of PostgreSQL. i don't know the details, maybe they
>are deferring index-updates automagically when copying-in ( check
>PostgreSQL release notes ).
>
>Miguel, you have not yet confirmed the two
>postgresql.conf-files(gentoo vs fbsd) to be identical ( or i missed
>that ). please let me know.
>  
>
Yes, thay are identical, except for he shared_buffers,

>another issue pops to my mind: on 4.x i had to tweak some sysctl's
>regarding shared-memory ( default settings would not allow PGSQL to
>claim as much as i would like ). i don't know if this still needs to
>be done on 6.x. if i recall correctly, postgresql would not start if
>it could not allocate it's shared buffers. things may have changed:
>check you postgresql.log to see if it is complaining.
>
>please let us know if you achieved any speed update at all.
>  
>

i increased the shred_buffers to 35% of fisical RAM, that doesnt helped 
very much, neither do fsync off.
thanks for all folks,





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