[PERFORM] slower with the time

2003-07-01 Thread Juraj Porada
I insert data every second in my table. Every minute I delete from the table some row to keep max 1 rows in the table. At the beginning deletes consume about 20% CPU time. After 24 houts every delete needs up tu 100% CPU time (updates too). Vacuuming doesn't help. After I restart postmaster,

Re: [PERFORM] Version 7 question

2003-07-01 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:10, Hilary Forbes wrote: I'm just trying to improve performance on version 7 before doing some tests and hopefully upgrading to 7.3. At the moment we have B=64 (no of shared buffers) N=32 (no of connections) in postmaster.opt which I take it is the equivalent of

[PERFORM] Effective Cache Size

2003-07-01 Thread Howard Oblowitz
Thanks. Some theoretical questions. The documentation says that Effective Cache Size sets the optimizer's assumption about the effective size of the disk cache ( that is, the portion of the kernel's disk cache that will be used for PostgreSQL data files ). What then will be the effect of