Checkpoints and the Background Writer: PostgreSQL 8.3 Improvements and Migration
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010improvements to PostgreSQL that could be made by tuning wal/background writer processes
Archive for the 'performance' Category
Tuning PostgreSQL WAL Synchronization
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Notes about PostgreSQL WAL synchronizations methods
WAL Configuration
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Notes about Write-Ahead Log, Check points and other IO configuration related to postgresql transaction log settings
Message Queue Evaluation Notes – Second Life Wiki
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Second Life notes about Message Queue Systems
Priorities – PostgreSQL Wiki
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010some info about managing/prioritizing resources (CPU/IO/RAM) under PostgreSQL from the project’s WIKI
CFQ – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturday, December 19th, 2009notes about Linux IO Scheduler – CFQ [Completely Fair Queue] . Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler
[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
Friday, December 18th, 2009Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
MySQL vs PostgreSQL Benchmarks | Random Bugs
Sunday, December 13th, 2009yet another mysql vs postgresql benchmark using “OSDB”. Small difference between the two, but consider that benchmark was done on 2-way SMP, 3GB ram, 1 SATA DISK and a small dataset.
11-2009 lb-l: Re: [load balancing] Re : Layer4 and Layer7 TPS
Monday, November 23rd, 2009discussion on LB-L (load balancing mailing list) about load-balancer performance benchmarks, vendor’s BS and so on.
Apache passenger vs nginx mongrel | Matt-Darby.com
Thursday, November 19th, 2009comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app