Re: DB Getting Slower and Slower and Slower....

Do you VACUUM and VACUUM ANALYZE regularly?

-Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Othman Laraki" <othman(at)epitrope(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:59 PM
Subject: DB Getting Slower and Slower and Slower....

>
>
> Hi,
> I recently upgraded to V7.1 version of Postgres on Linux and have noticed
> that as the DB is being used, it gets progressively slower and slower,
until
> very simple queries slow down to a crawl. The basic setup I have is a set
of
> JSPs and Servlets running on Tomcat, that use Java classes which connect
to
> Postgres through a JDBC driver and perform various DB operations. But, as
I
> said, the DB gets noticeably slower, as if it does not clean up behind
> itself after performing operations and finally runs out of memory... Then,
> the only thing that works is stopping the postmaster and rebooting the
> machine.
>
> If you have any ideas of what may cause this or what I can do to explore
> the issue, I would be very grateful. I am fairly new to Postgres, so any
> suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Othman
>
>
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>
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