and I forgot to mention that my stats are available at: http://John.Vicherek.com/slow/times.query.txt
John On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > I must be doing something silly. I have a 900MHz, 384MB RAM, and > this thing is slow. (Postgresql-7.1.2). > > And growing exponencially slower. > > SQL: http://John.Vicherek.com/slow/schema.sql (save to /tmp/schema.sql) > am.dat: http://John.Vicherek.com/slow/am.dat (save to /tmp/am.dat ) > perl: http://John.Vicherek.com/slow/rpm2filerian.pl (save to /tmp/rpm2filerian.pl) > > when I do : > > createdb filerian > psql -d filerian -f /tmp/schema.sql > echo 'create table times (the_moment datetime, the_number int4);' | psql -d filerian > cd /tmp/mdk/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS # lots of RPMs here > while sleep 10 ; do echo 'insert into times values( now(), count(file.id));' | psql >-d filerian ; done 2>&1 >/dev/null & > for i in *.rpm ; do echo $i ; perl /tmp/rpm2filerian.pl 0 $i ; done > > > Why are the times so bad ? Why is it slowing so fast ? > > Am I missing any useful indeces ? > > This shows the slowage: > select the_number,min(the_moment) from times group by the_number; > > PS: if you look in the perl code for "exec", immediatelly above will you > find the query it is doing. > > Thanx, > > John > > > > > -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster