Re: Postgres performance comments from a MySQL user

On 17/06/2003 10:57 Kaarel wrote:
>> can do the calculations in 10 msec. The number that got my attention
>> was 20 minutes. I don't see where that could come from, given the same
>
> The server was idle 20 minutes?
>
> "Just now I had the server sit for approx 20 minutes, rerunning the same
> query resulted in 3155 msec, a followup again 10.85 msec."
>

mybe after that amount of time, the kernel has marked the cached data as
stale and so re-reads it from disk?

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