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From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Bryan White <nicktook@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_restore error
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:53:36 -0700
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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-3157...

Cheers,
Steve

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