> How can i take some measurements to understand what bottlenecks will > appear? For long-term / ongoing I'm very happy so far with a package called munin. Google it and join their mailing list for help setting it up. But it takes snapshots at 5 minute intervals and this is not configurable. For immediate-term and for doing load tests, I've been very happy with sar/sadc from the "sysstat" package that you can get from yum. And also a package called ksar that you can google and download. >From our wiki : ---snip--- Before starting your load test, start this command on all boxes you want to monitor /usr/lib/sa/sadc -d -I -F 2 /var/log/foo/bar or on a 64 bit box /usr/lib64/sa/sadc -d -I -F 2 /var/log/foo/bar It will log system stats at 2 second intervals, until you control-C it. Then you can view the file in kSar. * go to "File" then "New Window" * from the new window go to "Data", "Local Command" * enter the command sar -A -f /var/log/foo/bar That's it! Now you will have some pretty graphs to look at! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general