Re: my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

I think with your help guys I'll do it!

I'm working on it!

I'll work on theses issues:

we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on possibility of 3 gigs)
iowait is very high 98% --> look like postgresql wait for io access
raid5 -->raid0 if i'm right raid5 use 4 writes(parity,data, etc) for each
write on disk
use more transactions (we have a lot of insert/update without transaction).
cpu look like not running very hard

*php is not running on the same machine
*redhat enterprise 3.0 ES
*the version of postgresql is 7.3.4(using RHDB from redhat)
*pg_autovacuum running at 12 and 24 hour each day



-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of
markir@coretech.co.nz
Sent: 29 juillet, 2004 23:00
To: Stephane Tessier
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE


A furthur thought or two:

- you are *sure* that it is Postgres that is slow? (could be Php...or your
  machine could be out of some resource - see next 2 points)
- is your machine running out of cpu or memory?
- is your machine seeing huge io transfers or long io waits?
- are you running Php on this machine as well as Postgres?
- what os (and what release) are you running? (guessing Linux but...)

As an aside, they always say this but: Postgres 7.4 generally performs
better
than 7.3...so an upgrade could be worth it - *after* you have
solved/identified
the other issues.

best wishes

Mark

Quoting Stephane Tessier <stephane.tessier@abovesecurity.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> somebody can help me??????? my boss want to migrate to
> ORACLE................
>
> we have a BIG problem of performance,it's slow....
> we use postgres 7.3 for php security application with approximately 4
> millions of insertion by day and 4 millions of delete and update
> and archive db with 40 millions of archived stuff...
>
> we have 10 databases for our clients and a centralized database for the
> general stuff.
>
> database specs:
>
> double XEON 2.4 on DELL PowerEdge2650
> 2 gigs of RAM
> 5 SCSI Drive RAID 5 15rpm
>
> tasks:
>
> 4 millions of transactions by day
> 160 open connection 24 hours by day 7 days by week
> pg_autovacuum running 24/7
> reindex on midnight



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