Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Tena Sakai
] Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 1:46 PM To: Kevin Grittner Cc: Tena Sakai; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance On Nov 14, 2007 3:33 PM, Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM, in message > <[E

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 14, 2007 3:33 PM, Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott Marlowe" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 14, 2007 2:26 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> INFO: vacuuming "public.allele" > >>

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Tena Sakai
rom: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 11:47 AM To: Tena Sakai Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance On Nov 14, 2007 12:56 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The postgres server I have (on redhat

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007 2:26 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> INFO: vacuuming "public.allele" >> INFO: "allele": found 2518282 removable, 1257262 nonremovable row versions >

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 14, 2007 2:26 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Many thanks for your suggestion. I have issued a > bit heavier command prior to reading your mail. > > At psql prompt, I (as superuser) typed: ># vacuum full verbose analyse; OK, I had just wanted vacuum verbo

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 14, 2007 12:56 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The postgres server I have (on redhat linux 2.6 with recent > Dell hardware (4 cpus)) is running terribly slow. > > A job it should have gotten done in less than 1 hour > took 7.5 hours last night. OK, before you try to fix th

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tena Sakai wrote: > I checked kernel parameter > shmmax and it was set as 33554432. I "fixed" it as > suggested by the manual: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/kernel-resources.html Note that just by changing shmmax you're not doing anything to Postgres itself. If you want Postgres t

[ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Everybody, The postgres server I have (on redhat linux 2.6 with recent Dell hardware (4 cpus)) is running terribly slow. A job it should have gotten done in less than 1 hour took 7.5 hours last night. The job I am referencing above gets run via crontab every evening and I comb the log file fa