Re: Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 -
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In response to Re: Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS  (Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>)
Responses Re: Huge performance problem between 7.4.1 and 8.0.3 - CS  (Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>)
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Ok, it doesn't look like an autovacuum problem.  The only other thing I
can think of is that some query is doing a seq scan rather than an index
scan.  Have you turned on the query logging to see what queries are
taking so long?

Matt


Robert Creager wrote:

>I am, and it is.  It's ANALYZING and VACUUM'ing tables every interval (5 minutes
>- 8.0.3).  Right now, for that last 4 hours, I'm not VACUUMing the 7.4.1
>database and it's still clicking along at < .2 second queries.  Last year
>(7.4.1), I noticed that it took about a week of heavy activity (for this DB)
>before I'd really need a vacuum.  That's when I put in the 5 min cron.
>
>When I first switched over to 8.0.3, I was still running the cron vacuum.  I got
>into big trouble when I had vacuum's backed up for 6 hours.  That's when I
>started noticing the query problem, and the CS numbers being high.  7.4.1
>vacuums every 5 minutes always take < 30 seconds (when I'm watching).
>
>Cheers,
>Rob
>
>When grilled further on (Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:48:20 -0400),
>"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> confessed:
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>>Robert Creager wrote:
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>>>For 8.03, pg_autovacuum is running.  On 7.4.1, I set up a cron job to vacuum
>>>analyze every 5 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Are you sure that pg_autovacuum is doing it's job?  Meaning are you sure
>>it's vacuuming as often as needed?  Try to run it with -d2 or so and
>>make sure that it is actually doing the vacuuming needed.
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