Re: [PERFORM] Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon patch for 7.4.1

2004-04-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:37 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > The tricky > > part is that a slow adaptation rate means we can't have every backend > > figuring this out for itself --- the right value would have to be > > maintained globally, and I'm not sure how to do that without adding a >

Re: [PERFORM] Why will vacuum not end?

2004-04-25 Thread Shea,Dan [CIS]
It is set at max_fsm_pages = 150 . We are running a DELL PowerEdge 6650 with 4 CPU's Mem: 3611320k av from top. The database is on a shared device (SAN) raid5, 172 GB. Qlogic Fibre optic cards(desc: "QLogic Corp.|QLA2312 Fibre Channel Adapter") connected to the Dell version of an EMC SAN (FC

[PERFORM] Number of pages in a random sample (was: query slows down with more accurate stats)

2004-04-25 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:00:10 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A possible compromise is to limit the number of pages sampled to >something a bit larger than n, perhaps 2n or 3n. I don't have a feeling >for the shape of the different-pages probability function; would this >make a signific

Re: [PERFORM] Why will vacuum not end?

2004-04-25 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:05:11 -0400, "Shea,Dan [CIS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is set at max_fsm_pages = 150 . This might be too low. Your index has ca. 5 M pages, you are going to delete half of its entries, and what you delete is a contiguous range of values. So up to 2.5 M index page