I hear you. I'm just not having a good day today. My biggest problem is my
project/time ration is way too high.
I agree with you, though. If I can get it to work on 150Gb, I can probably
get it to work on 355Gb. I just may have to change the manner in which I
perform these queries.
Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
Sandia National Laboratories.
(505) 284-3137
jdiehl@sandia.gov
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: September 20, 2001 1:50 PM
> To: Diehl, Jeffrey; 'Josh Berkus'; darcy@druid.net
> Cc: Diehl, Jeffrey; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!
>
>
> Diehl,
>
> > Um no, I just need a smaller problem to solve. The database worked
> > quite
> > well when the problem was half this size.
> <snip>
> > could do with 60 day's...!" And they are right, if it can
> be done...
> > If it
> > can't, I'll tell them and they will understand.
>
> What I'm saying is, based on your description, you need a lot
> of hand-on
> performance tuning help. Someone who knows the pgsql performance
> parameters and can experiment with tweaking and tuning to
> avoid swamping
> the memory of the machine(s) you're running on. Because
> that's what it
> sounds like the problem is.
>
> However, that sort of help will take some paid consultant time and
> possibly hardware. I think that if you can run a query on 150gb of
> data, you can probably run it on 355gb ... you just need some help
> performance tuning. But I don't think general advice on a
> list is gonna
> do it, y'know?
>
> -Josh
>
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