PostgreSQL Performance From the Ground Up

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● Rule of Thumb ● SAS 15k Hardware Basics: Disks ● Enterprise Class Disks ● SATA ok, but 2:1, generally. ● Why ● Disks are generally the bottleneck. ● Stable firmware, better command queueing, quick failure. ● Slower, and less optimized throughput but higher storage ● Slow disks, slow array
Hardware Basics: Disks, cont. ● Rule of Thumb ● SSDs – not quite there yet. ● ● Why ● No reliable way to flush the write cache on the disk. ● Most RAID cards don't work nicely with them. ● Small capacity ● But useful for other things....
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Page 3 and 4: Choosing Hardware ● These are nic
Page 5 and 6: Hardware Basics: Memory ● Rule of
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Page 15 and 16: Operating System, Cont. ● Ext3 da
Page 17 and 18: Operating System, Cont. ● vm.dirt
Page 19 and 20: Operating System, Cont. ● Use tab
Page 21 and 22: PostgreSQL ● shared_buffers make
Page 23 and 24: ● effective_cache_size ● 50-75%
Page 25 and 26: ● max_connections = 100 PostgreSQ
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Page 29 and 30: PostgreSQL, Cont. ● checkpoint_ti
Page 31 and 32: ● Don't change these: PostgreSQL,
Page 33 and 34: PostgreSQL, Cont. ● Autovacuum Co
Page 35 and 36: PostgreSQL, Cont. ● Autovacuum is
Page 37 and 38: ● log_rotation_age = 1d ● log_r
Page 39 and 40: Queries, Cont. lacey@[local]:5432:l
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