Re: slow database - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: slow database
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Msg-id 1076510965.761.17.camel@jester
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In response to slow database  (alemon@tiago.hazor.com.br)
Responses Re: slow database
List pgsql-performance
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 09:23, alemon@tiago.hazor.com.br wrote:
> my data base is very slow. The machine is a processor Xeon 2GB with
> 256 MB of RAM DDR. My archive of configuration is this:

I'm not surprised. New values below old.


> sort_mem = 131072               # min 64, size in KB

sort_mem = 8192.

> fsync = false

Are you aware of the potential for data corruption during a hardware,
power or software failure?

> enable_seqscan = false
> enable_indexscan = false
> enable_tidscan = false
> enable_sort = false
> enable_nestloop = false
> enable_mergejoin = false
> enable_hashjoin = false

You want all of these set to true, not false.

> effective_cache_size = 170000   # typically 8KB each

effective_cache_size =  16384.

> random_page_cost = 1000000000   # units are one sequential page fetch cost

random_page_cost = 3

> cpu_tuple_cost = 0.3            # (same)

cpu_tuple_cost = 0.01

> cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.6      # (same)

cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.001

> cpu_operator_cost = 0.7         # (same)

cpu_operator_cost = 0.0025

> default_statistics_target = 1   # range 1-1000

default_statistics_target = 10



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