Re: Recursive query performance issue - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: Recursive query performance issue
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In response to Recursive query performance issue  (Jamie Koceniak <jkoceniak@mediamath.com>)
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Jamie Koceniak
<jkoceniak@mediamath.com> wrote:
> Version:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PostgreSQL 9.1.14 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian
> 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2, 64-bit
>
> Query Plan
>
> http://explain.depesz.com/s/4s37
>
> Normally, this query takes around 200-300 ms to execute.
>
> However when several queries are run concurrently, query performance drops
> to 30-60 seconds.

Please define 'several'.  Essential information here is a capture of
'top' and possibly 'perf top'.  Also if the problem is storage related
iostat can be very useful  (or vmstat in a pinch)

FYI you can use pgbench with -f mode to measure concurrency
performance of any query.

The very first thing to rule out is a storage bottleneck via measured
iowait.  Assuming that's the case, this problem is interesting if:
*) Scaling is much worse than it should be
*) You can confirm this on more modern postgres  (interesting problems
are only interesting if they are unsolved)

merlin


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