Re: Some observations on very slow pg_restore operations

2019-10-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
What is the state of KSM/THP? Did you try disabling them ? I've seen these can cause high iowait (although that was a virtual environment). It would be interesting to see vmstat output. tail /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag /sys/kernel/mm/transparent

Re: Some observations on very slow pg_restore operations

2019-10-03 Thread Ogden Brash
Thanks Michael, I am sure that there is some optimization to be found in the config (and below are all the non-default values in the file). I suspect that they won't explain the difference between restoring from nfs vs local drive, but they could certainly speed up my best case. The dataset is so

Re: Some observations on very slow pg_restore operations

2019-10-03 Thread MichaelDBA
Hi Ogden, You didn't mention any details about your postgresql.conf settings.  Why don't you set them optimally for your loads and try again and see if there is any difference.  Make sure you do a DB restart since some of these parameters require it. == pa