Re: PL/Perl Performance Problems

From: Alex - <aintokyo(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/Perl Performance Problems
Date: 2009-12-21 09:38:31
Message-ID: SNT135-w3662909173CEFA9DEE34CECF820@phx.gbl
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Thanks,I am already have started doing that. i.e. running the dummy task to get the tables loaded again and it worked fine today.
regardsAlex

> To: aintokyo(at)hotmail(dot)com
> CC: scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl Performance Problems
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:39:00 -0500
> From: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
>
> Alex - <aintokyo(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom, Scott, Alvaro,thanks for the hints on this issue. It looks as if one of the EOD maintenance jobs which does a few extensive queries does push data out of memory leading to this behavior.
> > Is there a way to permanently cash some tables into memory?
>
> Not as such, and if there were it probably wouldn't be an overall
> performance win anyway, because you'd hurt your maintenance tasks.
> What you might consider doing is, at the end of the EOD sequence,
> run some dummy queries that scan the tables you use normally, causing
> them to get swapped back in so the cache is already primed when people
> come to work in the morning.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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