From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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To: | Jack Coates <jack(at)lyris(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: tuning questions |
Date: | 2003-12-04 20:27:22 |
Message-ID: | 200312042027.22223.dev@archonet.com |
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On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:50, Jack Coates wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set Postgres's shared memory usage in a fashion that
> allows it to return requested results quickly. Unfortunately, none of
> these changes allow PG to use more than a little under 300M RAM.
> vacuumdb --analyze is now taking an inordinate amount of time as well
> (40 minutes and counting), so that change needs to be rolled back.
You don't want PG to use all your RAM, it's designed to let the underlying OS
do a lot of caching for it. Probably worth having a look at vmstat/iostat and
see if it's saturating on I/O.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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