On 3/6/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > > My problem with running PG inside of a VPS was that the VPS used a > > virtual filesystem... basically, a single file that had been formatted > > and loop mounted so that it looked like a regular hard drive. > > Unfortunately, it was very slow. The difference between my application > > and yours is that mine well more than filled the 1GB of RAM that I had > > allocated. If your data will fit comfortably into RAM then you may be > > fine. > > We host VPSs here (http://www.hub.org) and don't use the 'single file, > virtual file system' to put them into ... it must depend on where you > host? That's true... I hope I didn't imply that I am anti-vps, I run my own servers and one of them is dedicated to doing VPS for different applications. I think they're wonderful. On 3/6/06, Nagita Karunaratne <nagita.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From personal experience, would you run Postgres on a linux machine > (NOT a vps) with 512MB of ram? > > Assumining I can keep all my data in memory. Nagita, It all depends on performance... I have one postgres database that runs on a Pentium 350MHz with 128MB of RAM. It does 1 insert per minute 24 hours per day. Because the load is so low, I can get away with minimal hardware. If your application has a lot of inserts/updates then disk speed is important and can vary greatly from one VPS to another. If your application is not time-critical than this may be a moot point anyway. -- Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org
