Load problems...

From: Daniel Andersen <zedar(at)free2air(dot)com(dot)au>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Load problems...
Date: 2001-12-19 03:56:05
Message-ID: E16GXfr-0006h4-00@corky.internettv.net.au
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Hi,
Does postgresql have any problems managing load? I'm running a medium sized
(30k customers) ISP off a postgresql database but it can't seem to manage
very well with the dozen or so requests per second it receives. The machine
we are handling is plenty powerful enough for a database like this (a dual
1ghz p3 machine with 1gb of ram) but for some reason it never runs quite
perfectly. 7.1.3 would overload the system rapidly and slow to a crawl, so we
installed 7.2b4 only to find it runs like a dream (less that 10% cpu usage
most of the time) but eventually fails to fork and crashes and burns, at
which point i have to restart it. Could anyone shed any light on a possible
solution to these problems?
Thanks,
Daniel Andersen

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