Re: Performance issues - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi Gavin,

Vivekanand is his first mail itself mentioned the below configuration
of postgresql.conf. It looks good enough to me.

Total Memory : 8 GB

shared_buffers = 2GB

work_mem = 64MB

maintenance_work_mem = 700MB

effective_cache_size = 4GB

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Gavin Flower
<GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
> On 14/03/15 13:12, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>>
>> On 14.3.2015 00:28, Vivekanand Joshi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> So here is the full information attached as well as in the link
>>> provided below:
>>>
>>> http://pgsql.privatepaste.com/41207bea45
>>>
>>> I can provide new information as well.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> We still don't have EXPLAIN ANALYZE - how long was the query running (I
>> assume it got killed at some point)? It's really difficult to give you
>> any advices because we don't know where the problem is.
>>
>> If EXPLAIN ANALYZE really takes too long (say, it does not complete
>> after an hour / over night), you'll have to break the query into parts
>> and first tweak those independently.
>>
>> For example in the first message you mentioned that select from the
>> S_V_D_CAMPAIGN_HIERARCHY view takes ~9 minutes, so start with that. Give
>> us EXPLAIN ANALYZE for that query.
>>
>> Few more comments:
>>
>> (1) You're using CTEs - be aware that CTEs are not just aliases, but
>>      impact planning / optimization, and in some cases may prevent
>>      proper optimization. Try replacing them with plain views.
>>
>> (2) Varadharajan Mukundan already recommended you to create index on
>>      s_f_promotion_history.send_dt. Have you tried that? You may also
>>      try creating an index on all the columns needed by the query, so
>>      that "Index Only Scan" is possible.
>>
>> (3) There are probably additional indexes that might be useful here.
>>      What I'd try is adding indexes on all columns that are either a
>>      foreign key or used in a WHERE condition. This might be an
>>      overkill in some cases, but let's see.
>>
>> (4) I suspect many of the relations referenced in the views are not
>>      actually needed in the query, i.e. the join is performed but
>>      then it's just discarded because those columns are not used.
>>      Try to simplify the views as much has possible - remove all the
>>      tables that are not really necessary to run the query. If two
>>      queries need different tables, maybe defining two views is
>>      a better approach.
>>
>> (5) The vmstat / iostat data are pretty useless - what you provided are
>>      averages since the machine was started, but we need a few samples
>>      collected when the query is running. I.e. start the query, and then
>>      give us a few samples from these commands:
>>
>>      iostat -x -k 1
>>      vmstat 1
>>
>>> Would like to see if queries of these type can actually run in
>>> postgres server?
>>
>> Why not? We're running DWH applications on tens/hundreds of GBs.
>>
>>> If yes, what would be the minimum requirements for hardware? We would
>>> like to migrate our whole solution on PostgreSQL as we can spend on
>>> hardware as much as we can but working on a proprietary appliance is
>>> becoming very difficult for us.
>>
>> That's difficult to say, because we really don't know where the problem
>> is and how much the queries can be optimized.
>>
>>
> I notice that no one appears to have suggested the default setting in
> postgresql.conf - these need changing as they are initially set up for small
> machines, and to let PostgreSQL take anywhere near full advantage of a box
> have large amounts of RAM, you need to change some of the configuration
> settings!
>
> For example 'temp_buffers' (default 8MB) and 'maintenance_work_mem' (default
> 16MB) should be drastically increased,  and there are other settings that
> need changing.  The precise values depend on many factors, but the initial
> values set by default are definitely far too small for your usage.
>
> Am assuming that you are looking at PostgreSQL 9.4.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
>



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