Re: speed up restore from dump

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: speed up restore from dump
Date: 2008-10-30 20:17:15
Message-ID: 20081030201715.GM3857@alvh.no-ip.org
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Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008, Joao Ferreira gmail
> > During restore:
> > # vmstat
> > procs --------memory------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
> > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> > 3 1 230204 4972 1352 110128 2 1 17 63 24 56 12 2 85 0
> > #
>
> Does that machine really have only 256MB of RAM? And it's over 200MB into
> swap?

Huh, if that's the case then you should drop maintenance_work_mem a lot
(and not increase work_mem too much either), because having it high
enough that it causes swapping leads to worse performance.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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