On 5/11/2010 3:28 AM, Jason Armstrong wrote:
I have a  performance question with a database workqueue I am working on.

I have two tables, the first containing information about files, and
the second is a workqueue table with 'jobs', intended for a worker
process to transfer the files to another machine:

create table log.file (id uuid, created timestamp default NOW() not null, 
filetype_id smallint, process_id smallint, filepath text, UNIQUE (id, 
filetype_id));
create table fileworkqueue.job (id uuid, filetype_id smallint, filepath text, 
attempt smallint not null default 0);
create index fwq_id_filetype_id_idx on fileworkqueue.job(id, filetype_id);


When we are processing without the workers running (ie just insert
into the log.file table, with the fileworkqueue.job table being filled
up by the trigger), we see a rate of about 3 milliseconds per insert.
When it is run with the workers removing data from the
fileworkqueue.job table, this drops to below 50 Ms.


Thanks for any ideas.


Does the worker keep a transaction open for a long period of time?

ie. worker:
startTransaction
select jobs
process job for a while
delete from job where...
commit

If so, that might be a problem.

-Andy

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