Hi, Environment : - Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.10) - postgresql 7.4.7
I am running a huge query with several joins that needs around 900 Mbytes of Memory (System RAM is 512 Mbytes). When the system starts to swap the postgres process, CPU consumed drops to around 2% (instead of around 50% on another system with kernel 2.4). The query was still working after more than 4 hours, spending the time with 98% if IO wait. So I tried to run the postmaster with the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1. With this, the query last 7 minutes !!! Why swapping is so bad with the new kernel ? Thanks, Guillaume ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match