<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just wondering what I can do to squeeze out more performance of my database application? Here's my configuration:<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><br></div>- Mac mini server</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">- Core i7 quad-core at 2GHz</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">- 16GB memory<br>- Dedicated fast SSD (two SSDs in the server)<br><div>- Mac OS X 10.7.2 (*not* using OS X Server)</div></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div>- PostgreSQL 9.05</div><div>- PostGIS 1.5.3 </div><div>- Tiger Geocoder 2010 database (from build scripts from <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk/extras/tiger_geocoder/tiger_2010/">http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk/extras/tiger_geocoder/tiger_2010/</a>)</div><div>- Database size: ~90GB</div><div><br></div></blockquote>I should say, this box does more than PostgreSQL geocoding/reverse-geocoding, so reasonably only half of the memory should be allotted to PostgreSQL.<br><div><br></div><div>Coming from MySQL, I would normally play with the my.cnf, using my-huge.cnf as a start. But I'm new to PostgreSQL and PostGIS (w/ a big database), so I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on tuning parameters (also, which files, etc.) Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>…Rene</div></body></html>