Fabio, > Postgres initially worked wonderfully, fast and solid. It > preformed complex joins in 0.01secs, and was able to keep up with our > message queue. It stayed this way for almost a year during our > development. > > Recently it started eating up the cpu, and cannot keepup with the system > like it used to. The interesting thing here is that it still runs great > on an older system with less ram, one slower cpu, and an older disk.
This really points to a maintenance problem. How often do you run VACUUM ANALYZE? You have a very high rate of data turnover, and should need to VACUUM frequently. Also, what's you max_fsm_pages setting. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly