X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD6C9FB267 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:22:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07624-03 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:22:43 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6C79FA6B5 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:22:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n25so165450pyg for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=EFT5PU4uWb+MlJZysDxNOxITVtF8zg9j0GaiUse3pS44VV44vF9YOGBI01FZoq5waveHJMengfObTHsM62IubSVMbFS0tC4yFVNuLiuOYc7q6yNmXzFg+UmwZD9LiZNVoxoHTVUhbhginEZ2QkP14vEGq9se/7VgzUec2Wrm7GY= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr863336pym; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amd64-gentoo-laptop ( [66.167.78.2]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm312446nzf.2006.08.08.22.22.39; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Postgresql Performance on an HP DL385 and From: Steve Poe Reply-To: steve.poe@gmail.com To: Luke Lonergan Cc: Alex Turner , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:22:31 -0700 Message-Id: <1155100951.21499.3.camel@amd64-gentoo-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.199 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/124 X-Sequence-Number: 20309 > Are any of the disks not healthy? Do you see any I/O errors in dmesg? Luke, In my vmstat report, I it is an average per minute not per-second. Also, I found that in the first minute of the very first run, the HP's "bi" value hits a high of 221184 then it tanks after that. Steve