Re: Postgresql is very slow

On Monday 23 June 2008 07:06:54 bijayant kumar wrote:
> Hello to list,
>
> We have a CentOS-5 server with postgresql-8.1.8 installed. I am struggling
> with postgresql performance. Any query say select * from tablename takes
> 10-15 mins to give the output, and while executing the query system loads
> goes up like anything. After the query output, system loads starts
> decresing.

Sounds like a vacuum problem.

>
> Any query select,insert,update simple or complex behaves in the same way,
> what i have explained above.
>
> System Specification:
>
> OS :- CentOs 5
> Postgresql 8.1.8
> RAM :- 1 GB
> SWAP 2 GB
>
> Some relevent part(uncommented) of my /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
>
> listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> max_connections = 100
> shared_buffers = 1000

You shared_buffers seems low.

>
> The one more strange thing is that with the same setting on another server,
> postgresql is running very smooth. I had run vacum also some times back.

You are aware that vacuum is supposed to be an ongoing maintenance activity,
right?

>
> Please help me out and let me know if you need any other information.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Bijayant Kumar
>
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jan