Re: Low CPU Usage

In response to brauagustin-susc(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar:

> > That's not what it looks like based on the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.
> > It looks like run time dropped from two seconds to half a second.
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> > It seems as though you either have a network delay delivering the results,
> > or your application is slow to read them.
>
> > Exactly how are you arriving at those timings you're reporting to us?
>
> I have noticed this in a daly process I run which involves normally 45 minutes and with the new server takes 1:40.
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> Some days ago I began to do some tests with no success, then I opened PgAdmin with this simply query to read 2 big tables and then compare disk access.
> SELECT *
> FROM fact_ven_renta fvr, dim_producto_std_producto dpp
> WHERE
> fvr.producto_std_producto_sk = dpp.producto_sk
>
> fact_ven_renta has 136316 rows
> dim_producto_std_producto has 3669 rows

Run the tests from psql on the same server. As Kevin pointed out, the
_server_ is faster, but it appears as if the connection between PGadmin
and this new server is slower somehow.

Are you sure of your speed/duplex settings on the network side? That's
the most common cause of this kind of thing in my experience. Try doing
a raw FTP transfer between the client and server and see if you get the
speed you should.

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> I have made all possible combinations pgadmin (running in the same server each query, in the old one, in the new one), without difference and I only retrieve the first 100 records (I didn't count the network time in any case).
> But the weird thing is running the query in the new server the are many disk access and cpu usage. And with other applications in the same server are a lot of disks access.

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