Re: [PERFORM] Compressing WAL

2005-04-10 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Jim C. Nasby"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > Has anyone looked at compressing WAL's before writing to disk? On a > system generating a lot of WAL it seems there might be some gains to be > had WAL data could be compressed before going to disk, since today's > machines are generally more I/O bound

Re: [PERFORM] Forcing use of specific index

2005-06-05 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Tobias Brox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > Is it any way to attempt to force the planner to use some specific index > while creating the plan? Other than eventually dropping all the other > indices (which is obiously not a solution in production setting anyway)? > I don't think currently PG suppo

Re: [PERFORM] performance problems ... 100 cpu utilization

2005-07-13 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > checking the status of connections at this point ( ps -eaf | grep > "postgres:") where the CPU is maxed out I saw this: > > 127 idle > 12 bind > 38 parse > 34 select > Are you sure 100% CPU usage is solely contributed by Postgresql? Also, from the ps statu

Re: [PERFORM] QRY seems not using indexes

2005-08-08 Thread Qingqing Zhou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > so, if I do a qry like "EXPLAIN ANALYZE select * from pridecdr where > idsede=8977758488" it tooks a lot of time before i get back any result: > > Index Scan using prd_id_sede on pridecdr (cost=0.00..699079.90 > rows=181850 width=138) (actual time=51.241..483068.2

Re: [PERFORM] it is always delete temp table will slow down the postmaster?

2005-08-10 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Chun Yit(Chronos)"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >hi, i got one situation here, i create one pl/pgsql function that using temp table to store temporary data. >wherever i execute my function, i need to delete all the data inside the temp table, but this will slow down the >searching function if i

Re: [PERFORM] Performance pb vs SQLServer.

2005-08-18 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Alvaro Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > Interesting; do they use an overwriting storage manager like Oracle, or > a non-overwriting one like Postgres? > They call this MVCC "RLV(row level versioning)". I think they use rollback segment like Oracle (a.k.a "version store" or tempdb in SQL S

Re: [PERFORM] Performance considerations for very heavy INSERT traffic

2005-09-12 Thread Qingqing Zhou
  "Brandon Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ... Increasing shared_buffers seems to always help, even out to half of the dev box's ram (2G).    Though officially PG does not prefer huge shared_buffers size, I did see several times that performance was boosted in case IO is the

Re: [PERFORM] How many tables is too many tables?

2005-09-14 Thread Qingqing Zhou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > One machine is simply not going to be able to scale with the quantities > of links we hope to store information about and we want to move to some > kind of cluster. Because of the quantities of data, it seems to make > sense to go for a cluster setup such that in a 4

Re: [PERFORM] Query seem to slow if table have more than 200 million rows

2005-09-26 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Ahmad Fajar"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Select ids, keywords from dict where keywords='blabla' ('blabla' is a > single > word); > > The table have 200 million rows, I have index the keywords field. On the > first time my query seem to slow to get the result, about 15-60 sec to get > the res

Re: [PERFORM] Query seem to slow if table have more than 200 million rows

2005-10-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Ahmad Fajar"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Hi Qingqing, > > I don't know whether the statistic got is bad or good, this is the > statistic: Please do it in this way: 1. Start postmaster with "stats_start_collector=true" and "stats_block_level=true". 2. Use psql connect it, do something like t

Re: [PERFORM] performance of implicit join vs. explicit conditions on inet queries?

2005-10-31 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Robert Edmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > EXPLAIN ANALYZE > SELECT * > FROM inet_addresses > WHERE addr << inet('10.2.0.0/24') >OR addr << inet('10.4.0.0/24') >OR addr << inet('10.8.0.0/24'); > > Bitmap Heap Scan on inet_addresses (cost=6.51..324.48 rows=1792335 > width=11) (actual

Re: [PERFORM] performance of implicit join vs. explicit conditions on inet queries?

2005-11-01 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > No, that's completely irrelevant to his problem. The reason we can't do > this is that the transformation from "x << const" to a range check on x > is a plan-time transformation; there's no mechanism in place to do it > at runtime. This is not easy to fix

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Merlin Moncure wrote: > > > > By the way, we've tried to insert into the windows database from a > > linux psql client, via the network. In this configuration, inserting > > is only about 2 times slower than inserting locally (the linux client > > had a slower CPU 1700Mhz aga

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Sorry, I don't follow you here - what do you mean to do? Remove the > event completely so we can't wait on it? > I'd like to use the win32 provided recv(), send() functions instead of redirect them to pgwin32_recv()/pgwin32_send(), just like libpq

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't follow you here - what do you mean to do? Remove the > > > event completely so we can't wait on it? > > > > > > > I'd like to use the win32 provided recv(), send() functions > > instead of redirect them to pgwin32_recv()/pgwin32_sen

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Merlin Moncure"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Running from remote, Time progression is: > First 50k: 20 sec > Second: 29 sec > [...] > final:: 66 sec > This may due to the maintainence cost of a big transaction, I am not sure ... Tom? > so, clear upward progression of time/rec. Init

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Not to 100%, so this means the server is always starving. It is waiting on > something -- of couse not lock. That's why I think there is some problem > on network communication. Another suspect will be the write - I

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Both win32 send/recv have pgwin32_poll_signals() in them. > > This is glorified WaitForSingleObjectEx on global > > pgwin32_signal_event. This is probably part of the problem. > > Can we work some of the same magic you put into check > > interrupts

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-03 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote: > > On Unix I get a dead flat line (within measurement noise), both local > loopback and across my LAN. > > after 5 30.20 sec > after 10 31.67 sec > after 15 30.98 sec > after 20 29.64 sec > after 25 29.83 sec > Confirmed in Linux. And on

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-04 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Merlin Moncure"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > ok, here is gprof output from newlines/no newlines > [newlines] > % cumulative self self total > time seconds secondscalls s/call s/call name > 19.03 0.67 0.671 0.67 3.20 MainLoop > 17.61

Re: [PERFORM] insert performance for win32

2005-11-04 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Magnus Hagander"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> I'd like to use the win32 provided recv(), send() functions >> instead of redirect them to pgwin32_recv()/pgwin32_send(), >> just like libpq does. If we do this, we will lose some >> functionalities, but I'd like to see the performance >> differe

Re: [PERFORM] weird performances problem

2005-11-21 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Guillaume Smet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iostat 10 > > Device:tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > sda 7.20 0.0092.00 0920 > sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0

Re: [PERFORM] Open request for benchmarking input

2005-11-26 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Jeff Frost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Did you folks see this article on Slashdot with a fellow requesting input > on what sort of benchmarks to run to get a good Postgresql vs Mysql > dataset? Perhaps this would be a good opportunity for us to get some good > benchmarking done. > "The har

Re: [PERFORM] filesystem performance with lots of files

2005-12-01 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"David Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > a few weeks ago I did a series of tests to compare different filesystems. > the test was for a different purpose so the particulars are not what I > woud do for testing aimed at postgres, but I think the data is relavent) > and I saw major differences

Re: [PERFORM] filesystem performance with lots of files

2005-12-01 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, David Lang wrote: > > I don't have all the numbers readily available (and I didn't do all the > tests on every filesystem), but I found that even with only 1000 > files/directory ext3 had some problems, and if you enabled dir_hash some > functions would speed up, but writing l

Re: [PERFORM] Open request for benchmarking input (fwd)

2005-12-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"David Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > here are the suggestions from the MySQL folks, what additional tests > should I do. > I think the tests you list are enough in this stage, Regards, Qingqing ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions b

Re: [PERFORM] Network permormance under windows

2005-12-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Josep Maria Pinyol Fontseca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > When we select all data in local machine, we obtain results in 2-3 seconds > aprox. In remote connections: > > Postgresql 7.1 usign pgAdminII: > Network traffic generated with remote applications is about 77-80% in a > 10Mb connection.

Re: [PERFORM] CPU and RAM

2005-12-21 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Harry Jackson wrote: > I am currently using a dual Opteron (248) single core system (RAM > PC3200) and for a change I am finding that the bottleneck is not disk > I/O but CPU/RAM (not sure which). The reason for this is that the most > frequently accessed tables/indexes are a

Re: [PERFORM] CPU and RAM

2005-12-22 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Greg Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > If the whole database is in RAM I wouldn't expect clustering to have any > effect. Either you're doing a lot of merge joins or a few other cases > where > clustering might be helping you, or the cluster is helping you keep more > of > the database in ra

Re: [PERFORM] Help in avoiding a query 'Warm-Up' period/shared buffer cache

2006-01-05 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Mark Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > First run, after a night of inactivity: > > -> Bitmap Index Scan on 1min_events_file_id_begin_idx > (cost=0.00..37.85 rows=3670 width=0) (actual time=313.468..313.468 > rows=11082 > loops=1) > Index Cond:

Re: [PERFORM] Help in avoiding a query 'Warm-Up' period/shared buffer cache

2006-01-05 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Mark Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Now, my follow-up question / assumption. I am assuming that the IO time > is > so long on that index because it has to read the entire index (for that > file_id) into memory > > any confirmation / corrections to my assumptions are greatly appreciate

Re: [PERFORM] Use of * affect the performance

2006-01-16 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Marcos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > I always think that use of * in SELECT affected in the performance, > becoming the search slowest. > > But I read in the a Postgres book's that it increases the speed of > search. > > And now What the more fast? > If you mean use "*" vs. "explicitely nam

Re: [PERFORM] data doesnt get saved in the database / idle in transaction

2006-03-20 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Ksenia Marasanova"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > The application uses persistant database connection, and when i check > the status of the connection, it shows: "idle in transaction". I am > pretty sure that every insert is being committed with explicit > "commit()" . It always worked before..

Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command

2006-03-22 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 06:22 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > Currently, it appears that SELECT * INTO new_table FROM old_table logs > > each page as it's written to WAL. Is this actually needed? Couldn't the > > database simply log that the SELECT ... INTO s

Re: [PERFORM] MVCC intro and benefits docs?

2006-03-28 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Jim C. Nasby"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > It's not dedicated to discussing MVCC alone, but > http://www.pervasive-postgres.com/lp/newsletters/2005/Insights_opensource_Dec.asp#2 > might provide you with some useful info. > -- Another introduction is here: http://www.postgresql.org/files/dev

Re: [PERFORM] statistics buffer is full

2006-04-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Gábriel Ákos"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > I've got this message while heavily inserting into a database. What should > I tune and how? It is postgresql 8.1.3. > > 2006-03-29 14:16:57.513 CEST:LOG: statistics buffer is full > Since your server is in a heavy load, so the common trick is to i

Re: [PERFORM] Large Binary Objects Middleware

2006-04-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Rodrigo Madera"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > The database is holding large ammounts of digital video, and I am > wanting to put these directly into the database. What performance > guidelines would you all give seeing my position today? > IMHO, if you don't need transaction semantics, don't p

Re: [PERFORM] Logging SQL queries to optimize them ?

2006-04-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Bruno Baguette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Is there a way to log all SQL queries, with the date/time when they were > launched, and the cost of that query (if this is possible) in order to see > which queries need to be optimized ? > See if log_statement, log_statement_stats parameters ca

Re: [PERFORM] slow "IN" clause

2006-04-09 Thread Qingqing Zhou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have a slow sql: > SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE id IN (1,3,5,7,3k here...); > mytable is about 10k rows. > > if don't use the "IN" clause, it will cost 0,11 second, otherwise it > will cost 2.x second > I guess pg use linear search to deal with IN clause, is there

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres gets stuck

2006-05-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Craig A. James"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'm having a rare but deadly problem. On our web servers, a process > occasionally gets stuck, and can't be unstuck. Once it's stuck, all > Postgres activities cease. "kill -9" is required to kill it -- > signals 2 and 15 don't work, and "/etc/

Re: [PERFORM] Pgsql (and mysql) benchmark on T2000/Solaris and some profiling

2006-05-16 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Arjen van der Meijden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Long story short, we think the test is a nice example of the relatively > lightweight, read-heavy webapplications out there and therefore decided > to have a go at postgresql as well. > Some sort of web query behavior is quite optimized in MyS

Re: [PERFORM] Variation between query runtimes

2006-06-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""John Top-k apad"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > from pg_stast_get_blocks_fetched i can see that both queries need almost the > same number of disk fetches which is quite reasonable ( the index is > unclustered). > > But as you can see there is a great variation between query > runtimes.Cansomeon

Re: [PERFORM] One tuple per transaction

2005-03-13 Thread Qingqing Zhou
""Tambet Matiisen"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > Hi! > > In one of our applications we have a database function, which > recalculates COGS (cost of good sold) for certain period. This involves > deleting bunch of rows from one table, inserting them again in correct > order and updating them one-by-

Re: [PERFORM] interesting benchmarks PG/Firebird Linux/Windows fsync/nofsync

2005-03-20 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Bruce Momjian" writes > > Yes, we now enable FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH on Win32 for open_sync and I > am about to open a discussion whether this should be the default for > Win32, and whether we should backpatch this to 8.0.X. Just a short msg: Oracle/SQL Server enable it as default in win32 *no m

Re: [PERFORM] column name is "LIMIT"

2005-03-20 Thread Qingqing Zhou
So is it to make SQL parser context-sensitive - say the parser will understand that in statement "SELECT * from LIMIT", LIMIT is just a table name, instead of keyword? There might be some conflicts when using Yacc, but I am not sure how difficult will be ... Cheers, Qingqing "Christopher Kings-L

Re: [PERFORM] Weird CASE WHEN behaviour causing query to be suddenly very slow

2015-04-07 Thread Qingqing Zhou
We have to confirm the theory first: a 'perf top' sampling during two runs shall give enough information. Regards, Qingqing On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Kevin Viraud wrote: > Touche ! Thanks a lot. > > Looking more at the data yes it goes very often to ELSE Clause. And > therefore reaching

Re: [PERFORM] Performance issue with NestedLoop query

2015-07-30 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Ram N wrote: > " -> Index Scan using end_date_idx on public.table2 b > (cost=0.43..23181.37 rows=345833 width=52) (actual time=0.063..622.274 > rows=403936 loops=181)" > "Output: b.serial_no, b.name, b.st, b.end_date, b.a, > b.sta

Re: [PERFORM] Performance issue with NestedLoop query

2015-07-31 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Ram N wrote: > > Thanks Qingqing for responding. That didn't help. It in fact increased the > scan time. Looks like a lot of time is being spent on the NestedLoop Join > than index lookups though I am not sure how to optimize the join. > Good news is that optimiz

Re: [PERFORM] Performance issue with NestedLoop query

2015-08-05 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Ram N wrote: > > Thanks much for responding guys. I have tried both, building multi column > indexes and GIST, with no improvement. I have reduced the window from 180 > days to 30 days and below are the numbers > > Composite index - takes 30 secs > > With Btree ind

Re: [PERFORM] Index creation running now for 14 hours

2015-08-26 Thread Qingqing Zhou
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Tory M Blue wrote: > > Right now the 100% cpu process which is this index is only using 3.5GB > and has been for the last 15 hours > If 100% cpu, you can do 'sudo perf top' to see what the CPU is busy about. Regards, Qingqing -- Sent via pgsql-performance mail