On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:55:04AM +0200, Roberto Grandi wrote: > Dear Pg people, > > I would ask for your help considering this scaling issue. We are planning to move from 3Millions of events/day instance of postgres (8 CPU, 65 gb ram) to 5 millions of items/day. > What do you suggest in order to plan this switch? Add separate server? Increase RAM? Use SSD? > > Any real help will be really precious and appreciated. > Roberto > Hi Roberto, This change is within a factor of 2 of your existing load. I would start with analyzing the load on your existing system to determine where your bottlenecks are. 5M/day is 57/sec evenly distributed or 174/sec in an 8 hour period. This does not seems like a lot, but you have given us no details on your actual workload. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
