Re: Seeking performance advice and explanation for high I/O on 8.3

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Otis <scott(dot)otis(at)intand(dot)com>
Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras(at)freebsd(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Seeking performance advice and explanation for high I/O on 8.3
Date: 2009-09-04 03:05:57
Message-ID: 603c8f070909032005l7be4e7cg6768bd5ddd816ccb@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Scott Otis<scott(dot)otis(at)intand(dot)com> wrote:
>> Can you post to the list all the uncommented lines from your
> postgresql.conf file and attach the results of "select * from
> pg_stat_all_tables" as an attachment?
>
> I attached a CSV of "select * from pg_stat_all_tables" from one of our
> more heavily used databases.  Note: I turned off stats collection and
> autvacuuming a couple days ago to see what it would do and then
> restarted postgres - I turned those back on this morning to that is why
> there aren't more autovacuumed and autoanalyzed tables.

Do you by any chance have a bazillion databases in this cluster? Can
you do these?

select sum(1) from pg_database;
select pg_relation_size('pg_database');
select sum(pg_column_size(d.*)) from pg_database;

...Robert

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