Re: Sun vs. Mac

Sorry - I meant to include that.  I'm running PG 7.3.1 on
Solaris 8.

Thanks,

-X

--- Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
> Which version of PostgreSQL, and which release of Solaris are
> you running?
>
> >
> > I'm having some serious performance issues with PostgreSQL
> on
> > our newish SunFire 280R (1 900MHz ultrasparc III, 1 GB RAM).
>
> > It's painfully slow.  It took me almost a week of tuning to
> get
> > it in the range of an old Mac G3 laptop.  Now, a few days
> later,
> > after tweaking every nearly every parameter (only noting
> > decreased performance on some) in /etc/system and
> > $PGDATA/postgresql.conf it's about as fast as I can make it,
> but
> > still horribly slow.  A few simple queries that take 1.5-7
> > minutes on the G3 take 1-1.5 minutes on the Sun.  A bulk
> load of
> > roughly 2.4 GB database dump takes ~1 hour on each machine.
> It
> > took almost 2 hours on the Sun before I turned off fsync.
> >
> > We have plans to add another CPU, RAM and another disk,
> which
> > should all help, but in its current state, I (and many
> others)
> > would think that it should run circles around the G3.  I'm
> > thinking that I'm missing something big and obvious because
> this
> > can't be right.  Otherwise we might as well just get a bunch
> of
> > ibooks to run our databases - they're a lot smaller and much
> > more quiet.
> >
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -X
> >


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