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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:17:16 +0100
From:      "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>
To:        "Axel Rau" <Axel.Rau@chaos1.de>
Cc:        freebsd-database@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Opteron box, dedicated to PostgreSQL
Message-ID:  <b41c75520703160417w672a6b92x38cac65001bc3ea1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8CDBEAF9-0945-4CD2-89C4-58AA63850ECC@Chaos1.DE>
References:  <8CDBEAF9-0945-4CD2-89C4-58AA63850ECC@Chaos1.DE>

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> while configuring my 1st PostgreSQL box with dual Opterons (2212) on
> FreeBSD, I have some questions:
>
> 3. What are the recommendations for tuning I/O)?
>     - setting sysctl vfs.read_max to 16 or 32
>     - rebuilding the relevant filesystem with 32K blocks and 4K frags
>     Are these reliable?

The following were suggetions from Vivek Khera:


/boot/loader.conf:

kern.ipc.semmni=256
kern.ipc.semmns=2048


/etc/sysctl.conf:

kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048
kern.maxfiles=65536

# Suggestions by Vivek Khera from postgresql performance
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1
kern.ipc.shmmax=1073741824
kern.ipc.shmall=262144
kern.ipc.semmsl=512
kern.ipc.semmap=256


This is on a four-way woodcrest at 3 GHz and 16 GB ram so you may want
to adjust the values.

regards
Claus



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