Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-26 Thread Chris Hoover
Ok, I was able to run a vacuumdb -f -v on my largest db over the weekend. However, I am having trouble reading the results of the table portion. Here area a couple of tables, what should I be looking at. First table is the key table to the db, and the second is the largest table in the db.

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the postgresql.conf from the server with the 11GB db: > max_fsm_pages = 1 # min 1000, fsm is free space map, ~6 bytes It's unlikely that that's enough for an 11Gb database, especially if you're only vacuuming a few times a week. Yo

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Ron St-Pierre
Chris Hoover wrote: On Friday 23 April 2004 14:57, Ron St-Pierre wrote: Does this apply to 7.3.4 also? No it doesn't, I didn't look back through the thread far enough to see what you were running. I tried it on 7.3.4 and none of the summary info listed below was returned. FWIW one of our DBs wa

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Chris Hoover wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2004 13:21, scott.marlowe wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > DB's on Powervaults 220S using raid 5 (over 6 disks) > > > > What controller is this, the adaptec? We've found it to be slower than > > the LSI megarai

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Hoover
On Friday 23 April 2004 14:57, Ron St-Pierre wrote: Does this apply to 7.3.4 also? > Actually, since he's running 7.4, there's an even better way. Do a > "VACUUM VERBOSE" (full-database vacuum --- doesn't matter whether you > ANALYZE or not). At the end of the very voluminous output, you'll se

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Ron St-Pierre
Josh Berkus wrote: Chris, Sorry for the confusion here. I can't run any sort of vacuum durin the day due to performance hits. However, I have run vacuums at night. Several nights a week I run a vacuumdb -f -z on all of the clusters. I can take serveral hours to complete, but it does compl

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > Sorry for the confusion here. I can't run any sort of vacuum durin the day > due to performance hits. However, I have run vacuums at night. Several > nights a week I run a vacuumdb -f -z on all of the clusters. I can take > serveral hours to complete, but it does complete. Well, her

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Hoover
On Friday 23 April 2004 13:21, scott.marlowe wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Chris Hoover wrote: > > DB's on Powervaults 220S using raid 5 (over 6 disks) > > What controller is this, the adaptec? We've found it to be slower than > the LSI megaraid based controller, but YMMV. > We are using the perc3

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Hoover
Sorry for the confusion here. I can't run any sort of vacuum durin the day due to performance hits. However, I have run vacuums at night. Several nights a week I run a vacuumdb -f -z on all of the clusters. I can take serveral hours to complete, but it does complete. During the day, I have

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Hoover
I know the numbers look ok, but we are definetly suffering. Also, if I try to run any sort of vacuum or other db activity during normal business hours, load goes through the roof. I have seen loads of over 10 when trying to vacuum the larger cluster and would have to kill the vacuums due to c

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Chris Hoover wrote: > DB's on Powervaults 220S using raid 5 (over 6 disks) What controller is this, the adaptec? We've found it to be slower than the LSI megaraid based controller, but YMMV. > Running RH ES 2.1 Are you running the latest kernel for ES 2.1? Early 2.4 kern

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > I need some help. I have 5 db servers running our database servers, and > they all are having various degrees of performance problems. The problems > we are experiencing are: I'mm confused. You're saying "general slowness" but say that most queries run in under .01 seconds. And you

Re: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Aaron Werman
- Original Message - From: "Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:31 AM Subject: [PERFORM] Help with performance problems I need some help. I have 5 db servers running our database serv

[PERFORM] Help with performance problems

2004-04-23 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some help. I have 5 db servers running our database servers, and they all are having various degrees of performance problems. The problems we are experiencing are: 1. General slowness 2. High loads All of our db's are running on Dell Poweredge 2650 with 2 P4 Xeons (2.8 -> 3.06 GHz)