----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: "Nick Barr" <nicky@chuckie.co.uk>; <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: pg_autoconfig.pl
> Nick,
>
> > Josh have you managed to put together the rest of the calculations yet?
>
> Given that I spent most of November working on the PR for the 7.4 release,
> I've just started to think about it. As you can see, I'm thinking about
> dovetailing pg_avd and pg_autoconf.
>
> The difficult thing is to figure out settings for "bad" hardware setups.
Like
> a 5GB database on a PIII500 + 256mb running 4 other pieces of major
software
> (I've acctually seen this). Or a 500/minute OLTP database on a machine
> with 1 fixed disk.
>
> All the variables are going into a hash array, right?
Yep that rights.$sys is the array name. And there are loads of different
keys for the hash. I will try and get a listing out of the script sometime.
Nick