Re: [PERFORM] Inserts in 'big' table slowing down the database

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Sorry for the delay. I had to sort out the problem (among other things). > > It's mainly about swapping. Do you mean ordinary file IO? Or swapping of an actual process's virtual memory? The latter shouldn't happen much unless you have somet

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres becoming slow, only full vacuum fixes it

2012-10-03 Thread Kiriakos Tsourapas
I am posting back to let you know that the DB is working fine since the changes in the autovacuum settings. I am including the changes I made for later reference to anyone that may face similar issues. Thank you all for your time and help ! On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:52, Kiriakos Tsourapas wrote:

Re: [PERFORM] hardware advice

2012-10-03 Thread Glyn Astill
- Original Message - > From: David Boreham > To: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2012, 16:14 > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] hardware advice > > On 10/2/2012 2:20 AM, Glyn Astill wrote: >> newer R910s recently all of a sudden went dead to the world; no pri

Re: [PERFORM] 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets

2012-10-03 Thread Andrea Suisani
Hi On 09/18/2012 09:44 AM, Andrea Suisani wrote: On 09/14/2012 10:45 AM, Daniel Farina wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Nikolay Ulyanitsky wrote: Hi I compiled the 3.6-rc5 kernel with the same config from 3.5.3 and got the 15-20% performance drop of PostgreSQL 9.2 on AMD chipsets (880

Re: [PERFORM] suboptimal query plan

2012-10-03 Thread Nick Hofstede
That fixed it :) The 9.2 query plan for reference: Sort (cost=439.67..439.74 rows=30 width=503) (actual time=0.754..0.756 rows=49 loops=1) Sort Key: s0_m0_msubjobs.creation_mdate, s0_m1_mjob.__id, s0_m0_msubjobs.__id Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 31kB -> Hash Join (cost=23.45..438.93