Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..

amrit@health2.moph.go.th wrote:
> I will try to reduce shared buffer to 1536 [1.87 Mb].

1536 is probaby too low. I've tested a bunch of different settings on my 
  8GB Opteron server and 10K seems to be the best setting.


>>also effective cache is the sum of kernel buffers + shared_buffers so it
>>should be bigger than shared buffers.
> 
> also make the effective cache to 2097152 [2 Gb].
> I will give you the result , because tomorrow [4/12/05] will be the official day
> of my hospital [which have more than 1700 OPD patient/day].

To figure out your effective cache size, run top and add free+cached.


>>Also turning hyperthreading off may help, it is unlikely it is doing any
>>good unless you are running a relatively new (2.6.x) kernel.
> 
> Why , could you give me the reason?

Pre 2.6, the kernel does not know the difference between logical and 
physical CPUs. Hence, in a dual processor system with hyperthreading, it 
actually sees 4 CPUs. And when assigning processes to CPUs, it may 
assign to 2 logical CPUs in the same physical CPU.


> 
> 
>>I presume you are vacuuming on a regular basis?
> 
> Yes , vacuumdb daily.

Do you vacuum table by table or the entire DB? I find over time, the 
system tables can get very bloated and cause a lot of slowdowns just due 
to schema queries/updates. You might want to try a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE 
just on the system tables.