Re: Hot Standby performance issue

On 22.10.2013 06:49, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2013 1:14 AM, "Tomas Vondra" <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz
> <mailto:tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>> wrote:
>>
>> On 22.10.2013 00:59, sparikh wrote:
>> > Yes, Expalin without Analyze is taking long. It is weird. In the
>> > pg_stat_activity Explain was the only query running. So server was
>> > almost idle. Using New relic interface I checked CPU was almost idle
>> > - around 10-20%. There were some IO activity - around 40-50%.
>> >
>> > I forgot to mention before I could run perf on command line even with
>> > root permission. It says command not found. May be utility is not
>> > installed or not enabled.
>>
>> Obviously you need to install it ... maybe ask your sysadmin to do that.
>>
>> > I have attached the snapshot of vmstat while explain was running in
>> > background. vmstat.txt
>> > <http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/file/n5775349/vmstat.txt>
>>
>> The vmstat clearly shows that ~1 CPU is waiting on I/O. Hmm, I'm really
>> wondering what's going on here - I can't think of a case where this
>> would happen with a plain EXPLAIN ...
>
> Catalog bloat could make that happen. Though that should show up on
> the master as well, it could be that it's cached there and therefor
> only shows us to as cpu and not io and is therefore not noticed.

Maybe, but sparikh reported the query to be running for ~20 minutes.
That'd be hell of a bloat.

Sparikh, can you show us the size of system catalogs? Something like

SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class
WHERE relname LIKE 'pg%'
ORDER BY relpages DESC LIMIT 20;

Should give the same results both on primary and standby.

Tomas