Re: Recursive query performance issue

2015-10-21 19:55 GMT+02:00 Jamie Koceniak <jkoceniak(at)mediamath(dot)com>:

> Hi Pavel,
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> Thanks for the reply.
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> 1. The queries aren’t waiting on any locks.
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> The query has a recursive join that uses a table with only 80k records and
> that table is not updated often.
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> 2. The I/O load was not high. CPU utilization was very high and load was
> very high.
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> We have a large effective_cache_size = 512GB (25% of total memory)
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so your server has 2TB RAM? It is not usual server - so this issue can be
pretty strange :(

What is size of shared memory? Probably is significantly lower than
effective_cache_size? Try to reduce effective cache size to be lower than
shared buffers

Regards

Pavel

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> Thanks,
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> Jamie
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> *From:* Pavel Stehule [mailto:pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12:04 AM
> *To:* Jamie Koceniak
> *Cc:* pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* Re: [PERFORM] Recursive query performance issue
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> Hi
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> 2015-10-20 19:34 GMT+02:00 Jamie Koceniak <jkoceniak(at)mediamath(dot)com>:
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> Version:
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> PostgreSQL 9.1.14 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian
> 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2, 64-bit
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> Query Plan
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> http://explain.depesz.com/s/4s37
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> Normally, this query takes around 200-300 ms to execute.
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> However when several queries are run concurrently, query performance drops
> to 30-60 seconds.
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> there can be few reasons:
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> 1. locking - are you sure, so your queries don't wait on locks?
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> 2. issues with cache stability - is there high IO load? You can try to
> increase effective_cache_size (or decrease if you have not enough memory)
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> Regards
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> Pavel
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