Re: Sudden insert performance degradation

Hi Henrique,

On 13. Jul 2020, at 16:23, Henrique Montenegro <typoon(at)gmail(dot)com<mailto:typoon(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:

[...]

* Insert the data from the `users` table into the `users_no_dups` table

```
insert into users_no_dups (
created_ts,
user_id,
name,
url
) (
select
created_ts,
user_id,
name,
url
from
users
) on conflict do nothing
```

How do you check contraints here? Is this enforced with UK/PK?

Running the above loop worked fine for about 12 hours. Each file was taking
about 30 seconds to be processed. About 4 seconds to create the `users` table
and have the CSV data loaded into it and anything between 20 and 30 seconds to
insert the data from `users` into `users_no_dups`.

Do you see anything suspicious in the logs, i.e. something in the realms of running out of transaction IDs?

[...]

Recreating the table now isn't really providing any improvements. I tried
recreating it with a `fillfactor` of `10`, but it was taking too long and too
much space (the table had 300GB with the fillfactor set to 30; with it set to
10 it went up to almost 1TB).

To me it sounds like the UK/PK is getting too much to write. A possible solution could be to start partitioning the table.

[...]
```
ssl = off
shared_buffers = 8GB
work_mem = 12GB
maintenance_work_mem = 12GB
max_stack_depth = 4MB
synchronous_commit = off
wal_writer_flush_after = 128MB
max_wal_size = 32GB
min_wal_size = 80MB
effective_cache_size = 96GB
```

Another suggestion would be to increase the min_wal_size here, but since you use UNLOGGED tables it does not matter much.

Information about the machine:

```
Processor: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (6 cores each, 12 threads)
RAM: 256GB

Disk1: 2TB SSD SATA-3 Samsung Evo 860
Disk2: 6TB HDD SATA-3 Seagate Exos Enterprise 7200RPM
Disk3: 8TB HDD SATA-3 Seagate Exos Enterprise 7200RPM

Disk1 and Disk2 are configured as a single logical volume.

Just curious: does that mean you mix up SSD + HDD?

Cheers,
Sebastian

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