Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-06 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
That's a good thought, maybe the stats are old and you have bad plans? It could also be major updates to the data too (as opposed to growth). we have made checks for number of dead tuples etc recently, but looks ok. and as "everything" in the database seems to be very slow atm, I guess th

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-06 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
That's why I love dstat, just do this $ dstat -C 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and you know all you need. dstat looks like a very nice tool, results below .. (now the system load seems a bit lower then before when generating results for vmstat and iostat) Good catch, thanks Scott. Yes, good catch. Sti

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-06 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
hi, What does a "normal load" mean? Does that mean a time when the queries are slow? yes, we are have slow queries (according to postgresql.log) with such load Are you sure the machine really has 48GB of RAM? Because from the vmstat output it seems like there's just 32GB. procs ---me

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-06 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
Thanks a lot to everybody for their helpful hints!!! I am running all these benchmarks while the VMs are up .. with the system under something like "typical" loads .. The RAID is hardware based. On of my colleagues will check if there is any hardware problem on the RAID (the disks) today, but

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-05 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
hi, thanks a lot for your help! Dear list, we are encountering serious performance problems with our database. Queries which took around 100ms or less last week now take several seconds. The database runs on Ubuntu Server 10.4.3 (kernel: 2.6.32-33) on hardware as follows: 8-core Intel Xeon CP

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-05 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
hi, thanks a lot for your help! Dear list, we are encountering serious performance problems with our database. Queries which took around 100ms or less last week now take several seconds. The database runs on Ubuntu Server 10.4.3 (kernel: 2.6.32-33) on hardware as follows: 8-core Intel Xeon CP

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-05 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
On 09/05/2011 03:51 PM, Andy Colson wrote: On 09/05/2011 02:48 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: On 3 Září 2011, 9:26, Gerhard Wohlgenannt wrote: Dear list, we are encountering serious performance problems with our database. Queries which took around 100ms or less last week now take several seconds

[PERFORM] Sudden drop in DBb performance

2011-09-05 Thread Gerhard Wohlgenannt
Dear list, we are encountering serious performance problems with our database. Queries which took around 100ms or less last week now take several seconds. The database runs on Ubuntu Server 10.4.3 (kernel: 2.6.32-33) on hardware as follows: 8-core Intel Xeon CPU with 2.83GHz 48 GB RAM RAID 5