Re: Slow Postgresql server

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Guido Neitzer <lists(at)event-s(dot)net>
Cc: Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slow Postgresql server
Date: 2007-04-12 16:56:04
Message-ID: 1176396964.13754.16.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:19, Guido Neitzer wrote:
> On 12.04.2007, at 08:59, Ron wrote:

>
> Depends. As I said - if the whole DB fits into the remaining space,
> and a lot of website backend DBs do, it might just work out. But this
> seems not to be the case - either the site is chewing on seq scans
> all the time which will cause I/O or it is bound by the lack of
> memory and swaps the whole time ... He has to find out.

It could also be something as simple as a very bloated data store.

I'd ask the user what vacuum verbose says at the end

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