Re: slow queries, possibly disk io

From: Josh Close <narshe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: POSTGRES-PERFORMANCE <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: slow queries, possibly disk io
Date: 2005-05-27 13:05:47
Message-ID: 4a0cafe2050527060533d3c4e9@mail.gmail.com
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On 5/26/05, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> > I have some queries that have significan't slowed down in the last
> > couple days. It's gone from 10 seconds to over 2 mins.
> >
> > The cpu has never gone over 35% in the servers lifetime, but the load
> > average is over 8.0 right now. I'm assuming this is probably due to
> > disk io.
>
> You sure it's not a severe lack of vacuuming that's the problem?
>

It's vacuumed hourly. If it needs to be more than that I could do it I
guess. But from everything I've been told, hourly should be enough.

-Josh

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