Sorry for answering so late, but I didn't notice your answer...
Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni wrote:
> If you HUP the database or reload the database the changes will take
> effect. Only in a very few cases you will have to restart the database.
> Can you give us more information regarding what changes you made to the
> postgresql.conf?
I was tweaking the Resource usage part shared_buffers, work_mem, ...
The problem is I was restarting the database with:
/etc/init.d/postgresql restart
The problem is that the result I was getting after the restart were much
better than if I reboot the machine. So I don't know why of that big
difference, if due to postgresql or due the kernel cache or where...
>
> -Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Arnau Rebassa
> Villalonga
> *Sent:* Wed 2/15/2006 4:39 AM
> *To:* pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> *Subject:* [ADMIN] how test postgresql.conf settings?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm testing different configurations of postgresql 8.1 running on
> debian. The method I was following was:
> - change the postgresql.conf
> - restart postgres (/etc/init.d/postgresql restart )
> - execute my test queries
>
> I have noticed that this is not enough to flush the cache, I don't
> know where it is, if at the raid controller, at OS or at postgresql
> itself. Reboot the machine I don't think it's a good solution because it
> takes quite long. Do you have any suggestion? BTW is there any tool to
> stress the DB, I mean, create a set of queries to execute and throw a
> configurable set of concurrent connections to check the performance?
--
Arnau