Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8759FB285 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67530-02 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D569FB357 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id k3so195716ugf for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:11:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kUOuR9CZoKsXpg23vF0pChKk8En+4B4BAHA75Kgss51NfzYsv43ogJ4Qt+Ay6v32cixiTDk2ELYaPQm7xxv8dK77iHWk9R9BE9bHdI0gfzAfQbCmDIK4PlHGowkz7VmZECbA2y5c9hJLzq0gu9UZFUyn5TZpDk6cKoxb8jubOSc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UgNva/wtC4o9yOtvz26yjWa6SIMQJkK2IgD6qr1mGqkszJsekb0Mm2Xv/23CBHyRNCPvPXll+fEVAAS7tyubErHVk3yghBuy31DMDINTy7eQizmF1w9nlmsnu2uGKWhF+VR/FzHu3MaWkK1gOT0T7bQH0/grvLtw0e03QXE9a74= Received: by 10.66.242.5 with SMTP id p5mr583948ugh.1179839466460; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.95? ( [89.251.0.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 59sm78961ugf.2007.05.22.06.11.03; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4652EBC5.3090802@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:10:29 +0200 From: Stephane Bailliez User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Tips & Tricks for validating hardware/os Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/436 X-Sequence-Number: 24826 Hi, Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips & tricks to validate a machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably won't trash my data today' ? I'm looking for a way to stress test components especially kernel/disk to have confidence > 0 that I can use postgres on top of it. Any secret trick is welcome (beside the memtest one :) Thanks ! -- stephane