Sorry for answering so late, but I didn't notice your answer...
Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni wrote:
If you HUP the database or reload the database the changes will take
effect. Only in a very few cases you will have to restart the database.
Can you give us more information regarding what changes you made to the
postgresql.conf?
I was tweaking the Resource usage part shared_buffers, work_mem, ...
The problem is I was restarting the database with:
/etc/init.d/postgresql restart
The problem is that the result I was getting after the restart were much
better than if I reboot the machine. So I don't know why of that big
difference, if due to postgresql or due the kernel cache or where...
-Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni
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*From:* pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Arnau Rebassa
Villalonga
*Sent:* Wed 2/15/2006 4:39 AM
*To:* pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [ADMIN] how test postgresql.conf settings?
Hi all,
I'm testing different configurations of postgresql 8.1 running on
debian. The method I was following was:
- change the postgresql.conf
- restart postgres (/etc/init.d/postgresql restart )
- execute my test queries
I have noticed that this is not enough to flush the cache, I don't
know where it is, if at the raid controller, at OS or at postgresql
itself. Reboot the machine I don't think it's a good solution because it
takes quite long. Do you have any suggestion? BTW is there any tool to
stress the DB, I mean, create a set of queries to execute and throw a
configurable set of concurrent connections to check the performance?
--
Arnau
