Bad performance. HUD, oh well. Swap out DB?

[unseen]

Well, well. So I still have some bad performance with beta14. Seems to become better with every release, but still not the nice smooth great experience that PT2 in conjunction with PAHUD was and still is.

Refreshing the tables of the statistics needs still some seconds, which was the case in PT2 just under some specific situations, like changing overall settings. My DB is about 100k hands, so nothing compared to other users I guess.

The HUD still seems to slow down the poker rooms. I moved from Stars to Party a couple of weeks ago, so I cannot verify the change with the Stars client ATM, but when playing on Party with 2 tables, that slightly overlap, I do no longer have the problem that buttons become unusable or tables will just not become active at all, but on the overlap I clearly see they are not brought into foreground as well.

I will try to file a report in the support system in a couple of hours (currently at work) or tomorrow, just wanted to get this up here to share with the rest of the userbase, to get some input.

One thing I am thinking about is swapping out my DB on another system in my network. Would this be a good idea?
Currently I run on my Mac Book Pro with Parallels Desktop 3.0 Windows XP SP3 inside Parallels and on that all of my pokersoftware including PostgreSQL. Now I think about using another system as DB server. This would trade some CPU and RAM usage on my Mac against more network traffic. Opinions on this?

[unseen]

Well it's still pretty early in the morning here. ;) There are some infos all ready on the PostgreSQL forum.
This thread: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7444 seems valuable.

Still, all comments are appreciated of course. :-)

Edit: Not that much info, as I hoped to find. Most is installation oriented, but not that much about performace gain or similar.

[WhiteRider]

Several people are running PT3 successfully with their DB on a separate computer, but I'm not going to make any suggestions or comment on performance as I'm not a postgres expert - especially since you're using a mac too - but I'm sure someone will be able to help you.

[tarix]

Currently I run on my Mac Book Pro with Parallels Desktop 3.0 Windows XP SP3 inside Parallels and on that all of my pokersoftware including PostgreSQL. Now I think about using another system as DB server. This would trade some CPU and RAM usage on my Mac against more network traffic. Opinions on this?

You could also run the Mac version of Postgres and connect to it through the parallels network. I doubt you would get much speed-up that way.

Also, as long as you have a gigabit network between your Mac and the DB machine I wouldn't be too concerned with the network traffic.

[keggler]

The HUD still seems to slow down the poker rooms. I moved from Stars to Party a couple of weeks ago, so I cannot verify the change with the Stars client ATM, but when playing on Party with 2 tables, that slightly overlap, I do no longer have the problem that buttons become unusable or tables will just not become active at all, but on the overlap I clearly see they are not brought into foreground as well.

One thing I am thinking about is swapping out my DB on another system in my network. Would this be a good idea?
Currently I run on my Mac Book Pro with Parallels Desktop 3.0 Windows XP SP3 inside Parallels and on that all of my pokersoftware including PostgreSQL. Now I think about using another system as DB server. This would trade some CPU and RAM usage on my Mac against more network traffic. Opinions on this?

if you've heavily customised your hud, try reverting to a basic one for now by renaming the layouts.pt3 file...

what is your cpu, memory and i/o usage for postgres and pt on the mac?

if this is excessive, you could try tuning your mac & postgres configurations first; if it's ok, trading the db onto a server will not buy you a great deal - if anything, pt's going to be i/o bound, not cpu or memory, and as the last poster said, over a good network,it won't even break into a sweat; i've run a networked pt system for a friend of mine over a home wireless network with 60 huds open over 3 pc's all updating the same db - no problem (took a tad of tinkering, but runs just fine - no lag, no crashes, responsive desktops).


susan