Re: [PERFORM] Interpreting vmstat

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:12, Doug Y wrote: Run a query I've been having trouble with and watch the output of vmstat (linux): $ vmstat 1 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy

Re: [PERFORM] Interpreting vmstat

2004-05-20 Thread Thom Dyson
Well, Since I haven't seen any other responds, I'll offer a bit of advice and let others correct me. :) Your shared buffers may be too big (?). It is much larger than the guide on varlena.com recommends. All I can suggest is trying some experiments with halving/doubling the numbers to see

[PERFORM] Interpreting vmstat

2004-05-18 Thread Doug Y
Hello, (note best viewed in fixed-width font) I'm still trying to find where my performance bottle neck is... I have 4G ram, PG 7.3.4 shared_buffers = 75000 effective_cache_size = 75000 Run a query I've been having trouble with and watch the output of vmstat (linux): $ vmstat 1 procs