On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:20:54PM +0930, William Carney wrote: > But with the server running on one machine and the client running on > another, the two machines being connected by a 100 Mb ethernet, with nothing > else on the network, this test takes 17 minutes to run. I have tried > changing the frequency of COMMIT operations, but with only a small effect. > > The machines used are P4s running FreeBSD 5.2.1. The Postgres version is > 7.4.3. Can anyone tell me why there's such a big difference?
Can you reproduce this problem in a tiny test case? If your application is doing other networky things (e.g. many name resolutions that hang for 10 seconds each), they may be slowing down the PostgreSQL work. Just a WAG. -mike ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
