Re: [PERFORM] Low CPU Usage

2007-09-20 Thread brauagustin-susc
Hola Beto. I have no idea where to look for that configuration or settings. Yesterday I red about some drivers problems with SATA disk working togheter with IDE devices with DMA. Mi server server is a Pentium VI 3.3 with hyper threading (enabled in BIOS), HP Proliant ML 110. Then I entered to

Re: [PERFORM] Low CPU Usage

2007-09-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Beto. I have no idea where to look for that configuration or settings. In postgreSQL, the main settings are in .../pgsql/data/postgresql.conf Yesterday I red about some drivers problems with SATA disk working togheter with IDE devices with DMA. Mi server

Re: [PERFORM] Tablespaces and NFS

2007-09-20 Thread Carlos Moreno
About 5 months ago, I did an experiment serving tablespaces out of AFS, another shared file system. You can read my full post at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-04/msg00188.php Thanks for the pointer! I had done a search on the archives, but didn't find this one (strange,

[PERFORM] REPOST: Nested loops row estimates always too high

2007-09-20 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
(SORRY FOR THE REPOST, I DON'T SEE MY ORIGINAL QUESTION OR ANY ANSWERS HERE) I am noticing that my queries are spending a lot of time in nested loops. The table/index row estimates are not bad, but the nested loops can be off by a factor of 50. In any case, they are always too high. Are the

[PERFORM] REPOST: Performance improves only after repeated VACUUM/ANALYZE

2007-09-20 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
(SORRY FOR THE REPOST, I DON'T SEE MY ORIGINAL QUESTION OR ANY ANSWERS HERE) My client publishes an edition of their DB from his production site to his hosted web/db server. This is done by FTPing a backup of the DB to his hosting provider. Immediately after a publication (restore to web/db

Re: [PERFORM] Low CPU Usage

2007-09-20 Thread brauagustin-susc
My new server postgresql.conf is equal to the old one. I'm doubting this is a hardware issue. Googling with my hard HP Proliant ML 110 G3 I saw that IHC7 controller has some problems, but looking and testing with hdparm it looks ok. hdparm -tT /dev/sdaç Timing cached reads: 1722 MB in 2.00

Re: [PERFORM] Tablespaces and NFS

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Koczan
Anyway... One detail I don't understand --- why do you claim that You can't take advantage of the shared file system because you can't share tablespaces among clusters or servers ??? I say that because you can't set up two servers to point to the same tablespace (i.e. you can't have server A

[PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread smiley2211
Hello all, Old servers that housed 7.4 performed better than 8.1.4 version...are there any MAJOR performance hits with this version??? I set the postgresql.conf setting to equal that of 7.4 and queries still run SLOW on 8.1.4... I have perform maintenance tonight on the 8.1.4 server - any

Re: [PERFORM] Tablespaces and NFS

2007-09-20 Thread Carlos Moreno
Thanks again, Peter, for expanding on these points. Peter Koczan wrote: Anyway... One detail I don't understand --- why do you claim that You can't take advantage of the shared file system because you can't share tablespaces among clusters or servers ??? I say that because you can't

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread Carlos Moreno
smiley2211 wrote: Hello all, Old servers that housed 7.4 performed better than 8.1.4 version...are there any MAJOR performance hits with this version??? Are you using the default UNICODE encoding for your databases?? This could potentially translate into a performance hit (considerable?

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread smiley2211
No, I didn't UPGRADE it but that's what I inherited :( ...not sure of the code page stuff because I am not the one who did the upgrade...I'm not sure I know ENOUGH about POSTGRESQL to mess around with the codepage... Yes, I use vacuum analyze... Yes, I used the postgresql.conf of 7.4 and tried

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/20/07, smiley2211 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I didn't UPGRADE it but that's what I inherited :( ...not sure of the code page stuff because I am not the one who did the upgrade...I'm not sure I know ENOUGH about POSTGRESQL to mess around with the codepage... Yes, I use vacuum

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/20/07, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: effort is going. I'm guessing you'll see a lot of id in there. sorry, meant wa (wait) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [PERFORM] Linux mis-reporting memory

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box... Mem: 32945280k total, 32871832k used,73448k free, 247432k buffers Swap: 1951888k total,42308k used, 1909580k free, 30294300k cached So how is it that linux thinks that 30G

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread smiley2211
How do I know if there is BLOATING??? I just ran vacuum verbose; Yes, autovacuum is on. Thanks...Michelle -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Upgraded-from-7.4-to-8.1.4-QUERIES-NOW-SLOW%21%21%21-tf4489502.html#a12807959 Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list

Re: [PERFORM] Linux mis-reporting memory

2007-09-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Sorry, I know this is probably more a linux question, but I'm guessing that others have run into this... I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box... Mem: 32945280k total, 32871832k used,73448k free, 247432k buffers Swap: 1951888k total,42308k used,

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/20/07, smiley2211 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I know if there is BLOATING??? I just ran vacuum verbose; Yes, autovacuum is on. Post the last 4 or 5 lines from vacuum verbose. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your

Re: [PERFORM] Upgraded from 7.4 to 8.1.4 QUERIES NOW SLOW!!!

2007-09-20 Thread smiley2211
Here are the requested lines... There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: free space map contains 786 pages in 297 relations DETAIL: A total of 5408 page slots are in use (including overhead). 5408 page slots are required to