Re: index build faster on 8G laptop than 30G server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: index build faster on 8G laptop than 30G server
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Msg-id 5716A381.5030109@hogranch.com
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In response to index build faster on 8G laptop than 30G server  (Bill Ross <ross@cgl.ucsf.edu>)
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Re: index build faster on 8G laptop than 30G server
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On 4/19/2016 2:28 PM, Bill Ross wrote:
> I've been running an index build for almost an hour on my 30G server
> that takes ~ 20 mins on my puny old macbook.
>
> It seems like I've tuned all I can.. what am I missing?



maintenance_work_mem is the main thing that affects index building
times, I didn't see that in your list of tuning parameters.    I
generally set it to 1GB.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz



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