Re: Where is my bottleneck? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Markus Schaber
Subject Re: Where is my bottleneck?
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Msg-id 43E1F7BF.2050100@logix-tt.com
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In response to Re: Where is my bottleneck?  (Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>)
List pgsql-performance
Hi, Michael,

Michael Stone wrote:

>>   I have a performance problem and I don't know where is my bottleneck.
>
> [snip]
>
>>   Most of the time the idle value is even higher than 60%.
>
> It's generally a fairly safe bet that if you are running slow and your
> cpu is idle, your i/o isn't fast enough.

Or the query is misoptimized (low work_mem, missing indices) and cause
much more I/O than necessary.

HTH,
Markus

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