From: Alexander Staubo <alex@purefiction.net>
To: Stephane Bailliez <sbailliez@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Tips & Tricks for validating hardware/os
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:45:25 +0200
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On 5/22/07, Stephane Bailliez <sbailliez@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
Compile the Linux kernel -- it's a pretty decent stress test.
You could run pgbench, which comes with PostgreSQL (as part of the
contrib package). Give a database size that's larger than the amount
of physical memory in the box.
Alexander.
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