Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000
Date
Msg-id 200403291223.27213.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000  (Fabio Esposito <nfesposi@sourceweave.net>)
List pgsql-performance
Fabio,

> The Vacuum's don't take too long, 10 minutes at most.  I can tell from ps
> -ef | grep and top that its the selects/inserts/updates from the postgres
> related to our app that take all that time up.  If we rerun initdb and
> reload the data, it works great for about two days, then goes bad again.
>
> We are in the process of trying out 7.4.2 right now, just waiting on the
> reload of pg_dump.

Well, test running VACUUM ANALYZE as the "postgres" superuser and see if that
fixes the issue.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


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