From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performace Optimization for Dummies
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:12:43 +0100
Message-ID: <451CE38B.7070107@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
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Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> We urgently need a major performance improvement. We are running the
> PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on a Windows 2003 x64 Server on a dual processor,
> dual core
> 3.2Ghz Xeon box with 4gb RAM and a RAID (sorry, I don't know what
> type) disc
> subsystem. Sorry about the long intro, but here are my questions:
Others have already drilled down to the way you do the inserts and
statistics etc., so I'll just point out:
Are you fully utilizing all the 4 cores you have? Could you parallelize
the loading process, if you're currently running just one client? Are
you I/O bound or CPU bound?
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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