Re: Tuning Postgresql on FreeBSD 5.1

From: Paul Pathiakis (paul_at_pathiakis.com)
Date: 08/26/03

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    To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:19:28 -0400

    Ummm....seriously? Well, after you get all the marginal parameters on the
    compilation and everything else cleared away, you have the "platform of
    choice". This is what development takes place on "in-house" so to speak.
    The developers become a lot more familiar through symbiosis with OS
    developers and sysadmins. They get to know a lot more about how to tune and
    performance enhance the machines on that platform. Usually, (not an
    absolute, only a fool speaks in absolutes) there's just a lot more understood
    about the OS and tuning is at a higher level and performance is better
    overall. (We can split hairs on this philosophy all day, however, this is
    just my opinion and response to your query. I REALLY DON'T want to start a
    thread on this.)

    Also, thanks to everyone whose responded so far! I will check on the
    starvation aspect, however, I did notice while using systat -vm that there
    was no starvation on memory or anything else. That's why I was concerned as
    to why the machine halted/stalled. I'm turning off HTT now and will see how
    it performs.

    P.

    On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:42 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    > Paul Pathiakis wrote:
    > > It is my belief that a BSD DB is
    > > going to run faster on it's platform of choice for development (FreeBSD)
    > > than another OS.
    >
    > Why? I mean, seriously, what has the platform you run your gcc and vim on
    > to do with performance at the end of the day?

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