Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Creager
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:54:22 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, I hadn't thought about the possible impact of multiple concurrent > vacuums. Is the problem caused by that, or has performance already gone > into the tank by the time the

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Creager
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:54:22 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I hadn't thought about the possible impact of multiple concurrent > vacuums. Is the problem caused by that, or has performance already gone > into the tank by the time the cron-driven vacuums are taking long enough > to

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alright. Restarted the 803 database. Cron based vacuum analyze is > running every 5 minutes. vacuum_cost_delay is 0. The problem showed > up after about 1/2 hour of running. I've got vacuum jobs stacked from > the last 35 minutes, with 2 vacuums run

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Creager
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:52:53 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Start a fresh psql session and "SHOW vacuum_cost_delay" to verify what > the active setting is. > Alright. Restarted the 803 database. Cron based vacuum analyze is running every 5 minutes. vacuum_cost_delay is 0. The

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-18 Thread Robert Creager
In regards to http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-07/msg00261.php Tom Says: > ... as indeed it does according to Robert's recent reports. Still > awaiting the definitive test, but I'm starting to think this is another > case of the strange behavior Ian Westmacott exhibited. Ok

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Around 8:15 I was starting to receive hits of a few seconds of high CS hits, > higher than the previous 7 hour run on 741. I changed the vacuum delay to 0 > and > HUP'ed the server (how can I see the value vacuum_cost_delay run > time?). Start a fresh

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-18 Thread Robert Creager
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:52:53 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Start a fresh psql session and "SHOW vacuum_cost_delay" to verify what > the active setting is. Thanks. It does show 0 for 803 in a session that was up since I thought I had HUPed the server with the new value. This is lea

Re: [PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-17 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm guessing this is the CS problem that reared it's head last year? The context swap problem was no worse in 8.0 than in prior versions, so that hardly seems like a good explanation. Have you tried reverting to the cron-based vacuuming method you used

[PERFORM] Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS issue?

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Creager
Sigh... I recently upgraded from 7.4.1 to 8.0.3. The application did not change. I'm now running both database concurrently (on different ports, same machine) just so I could verify the problem really exists. The application is a custom test application for testing mechanical systems. The run