Re: Problem with database performance, Debian 4gb ram ?

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Grant Masan <grant(dot)massan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Hi all,
>
> I have now readed many many forums and tried many different solutions and I
> am not getting good performance to database. My server is Debian linux, with
> 4gb ram, there is also java application and I am giving to that 512mb
> (JAVA_OPTS) memory. In database there is now like 4milj rows. What should I
> do better.
>
>
I would rather start to look at queries performance.

What's the size of db ?
select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('yourDbName'));

start logging queries, with time of execution, to see which ones are causing
problems.

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GJ