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From: David Kerr <dmk@mr-paradox.net>
To: Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) <Robert.Burgholzer@deq.virginia.gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: proper tuning for restoring from pg_dump in 8.3.7
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:35:33 -0700
Message-ID: <20100714213533.GA43630@mr-paradox.net> (raw)
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:30:17PM -0400, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote:
- >.  The options I suggested be turned off just for the load process 
- > ...
- > not safe if the other databases are in the same PostgreSQL Cluster
- 
- They are, so I won't --- thanks for the heads up on that too.
- 
- Just for posterity, here is the systems specs (from my hardware guy):
- DEQ1 is on centos 5.3
- W/ 1.5Tb striped system volumes using a pair of standard 7600 rpm sata
- drives.  These are on system 3 gbit/s ports.

So that makes total sense. you're flooding your disks/controller doing 
the massive amount of writing that's involved with the restore.

Dave



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