Re: Postgres on RAID5

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Arshavir Grigorian <ag(at)m-cam(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres on RAID5
Date: 2005-03-11 22:07:35
Message-ID: 5669.1110578855@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Arshavir Grigorian <ag(at)m-cam(dot)com> writes:
> I have a RAID5 array (mdadm) with 14 disks + 1 spare. This partition has
> an Ext3 filesystem which is used by Postgres. Currently we are loading a
> 50G database on this server from a Postgres dump (copy, not insert) and
> are experiencing very slow write performance (35 records per second).

What PG version is this? What version of pg_dump made the dump file?
How are you measuring that write rate (seeing that pg_restore doesn't
provide any such info)?

> Postgres is installed from the Debian package and uses
> all the configuration defaults.

The defaults are made for a fairly small machine, not big iron. At a
minimum you want to kick shared_buffers up to 10K or more.

regards, tom lane

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