Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E449FBB71 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:38:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00623-05 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:38:47 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from exprod6og55.obsmtp.com (exprod6og55.obsmtp.com [64.18.1.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC8C29FBB6A for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:38:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from source ([63.240.6.44]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob55.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:38:44 PDT Received: from 172.16.1.114 by mail.mi8.com with ESMTP (- Welcome to Mi8 Corporation www.Mi8.com (D4)); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:38:37 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: C8FB4D43-1108-484A-A898-3CBCC7906230 Received: from MI8NYCMAIL08.Mi8.com ([172.16.1.164]) by d01smtp07.Mi8.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:38:37 -0400 Received: from 24.23.197.133 ([24.23.197.133]) by MI8NYCMAIL08.Mi8.com ( [172.16.1.190]) via Exchange Front-End Server mi8owa.mi8.com ( [172.16.1.118]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:38:37 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:38:36 -0700 Subject: Re: New performance documentation released From: "Luke Lonergan" To: "Greg Smith" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [PERFORM] New performance documentation released Thread-Index: AceX0ERngt/5kAPDEdyDhAAX8s8Cag== In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 May 2007 15:38:37.0902 (UTC) FILETIME=[458A1EE0:01C797D0] X-WSS-ID: 6A55FAF71AG12533063-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/285 X-Sequence-Number: 24675 Cool! Now we can point people to your faq instead of repeating the "dd" test instructions. Thanks for normalizing this out of the list :-) - Luke On 5/15/07 8:55 PM, "Greg Smith" wrote: > I've been taking notes on what people ask about on this list, mixed that > up with work I've been doing lately, and wrote some documentation readers > of this mailing list may find useful. There are a series of articles now > at http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/ about performance > testing and tuning. > > The "5-minute Introduction to PostgreSQL Performance" and the "Disk > performance testing" articles were aimed to be FAQ-style pieces people > asking questions here might be pointed toward. > > All of the pieces in the "Advanced Topics" sections aren't finished to my > standards yet, but may be useful anyway so I've posted what I've got so > far. > > -- > * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >