Re: Disk and shared buffer cache use

Thanks guys, you comments are much appreciated. My background is
mainly in network performance evaluation and I am new to db tuning. I
will enable block level stats and get the data.

The reason I am looking for this data is that I am debugging a very
slow db server. CPU wait time % is over 50% and it is constantly
reading in MB's of data (vmstat bi column). I have shared buffers at
128MB and effective cache size at 256MB. and the db size is around
1.5GB. I am guessing that the db working set is much larger than
available cache memory.

Cheers,

-- Chamara

On 5/9/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> On May 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Chamara Gunaratne wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > Is there a way to determine the percentage of data found in the shared
> > buffer cache when running a query in PostgreSQL 7.4? Or to put it in
> > another way, how do you measure the effectiveness of the shared buffer
> > cache?
> >
> > I read through several sites on PostgreSQL performance tuning, but
> > couldn't find a method to measure this.
> > Thank you,
>
> Look at the pg_statio_* views (you'll need block level stats enabled
> in postgresql.conf).
>
> Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about this unless you're trying
> to chase some specific performance issue.
> --
> Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
> EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
>
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Priyanga Chamara Gunaratne