Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6C5633D01 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:32:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19609-04-7 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:32:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from vexbert.mr-paradox.net (vexbert.mr-paradox.net [198.145.180.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AFA633337 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:32:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: by vexbert.mr-paradox.net (Postfix, from userid 18391) id BB2F0845CD; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:32:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:32:15 -0700 From: David Kerr To: Scott Marlowe Cc: Nikolas Everett , Robert Haas , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Very high effective_cache_size == worse performance? Message-ID: <20100420183215.GC53489@mr-paradox.net> References: <20100420173936.GA50886@mr-paradox.net> <20100420180351.GA51940@mr-paradox.net> <20100420182030.GA53489@mr-paradox.net> <20100420182832.GB53489@mr-paradox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/255 X-Sequence-Number: 38505 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:30:14PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: - On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Kerr wrote: - > - > I'm logging via syslog, I've had trouble with that before. when i moved to syslog-ng - > on my dev environments that mostly resoved the probelm for me. but these machines - > still have vanilla syslog. - - Yea, I almost always log directly via stdout on production machines - because of that. - Ah well good to know i'm not the only one =) I'll get the query info. I've got a twin system that I can use and abuse. Dave