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From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas@peak6.com>
To: Michael Graham <mgraham@bloxx.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres refusing to use >1 core
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:06:07 -0500
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On 05/12/2011 03:30 AM, Michael Graham wrote:

> Do you happen to produce slides for these lunch n learns or are they
> more informal than that?  I guess you can work out where I'm going with
> this ;)

Oh of course. I use rst2s5 for my stuff, so I have the slideshow and 
also generate a PDF complete with several paragraphs of explanation I 
distribute after the presentation itself. I have two of them now, but 
I'll probably have a third in a couple months.

My next topic will probably be geared toward actual DBAs that might be 
intermediate level. Things like, what happens to an OLAP server that 
undergoes maintenance and experiences rapid (temporarily exponential) 
TPS increase. How that can affect the disk subsystem, how to recover, 
how to possibly bootstrap as a temporary fix, etc. Certainly things I 
would have liked to know before seeing them. I'm going to call it "Your 
Database Probably Hates You." ;)

I have a tendency to enjoy "stories from the field," and I've got more 
than a few where I've saved a database from certain death. Sometimes 
it's tweaking a few config settings, sometimes it's new hardware based 
on system monitoring or allocation tests. Little things Senior DBAs 
might know after experiencing them, or reading lists like this one.

-- 
Shaun Thomas
OptionsHouse | 141 W. Jackson Blvd. | Suite 800 | Chicago IL, 60604
312-676-8870
sthomas@peak6.com

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