Re: Help tuning a large table off disk and into RAM - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Help tuning a large table off disk and into RAM
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Msg-id dcc563d10709261218n13caf5f0t33cda7eef26c16c2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Help tuning a large table off disk and into RAM  ("James Williams" <james.wlms@googlemail.com>)
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On 9/26/07, James Williams <james.wlms@googlemail.com> wrote:

> The last is based mostly on the observation that another tiddly
> unrelated mysql db which normally runs fast, grinds to a halt when
> we're querying the postgres db (and cpu, memory appear to have spare
> capacity).

Just a quick observation here.

When the drives are thrashing, is it straight db-storage thrashing, or
is the system swapping out a lot?

Run vmstat 10 while running this query when this happens and pay
attentino to bi bo and si so

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