Re: Optimize

Torsten Schulz wrote:

> Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>
>> Torsten Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I know: very difficult question, but I don't know what to do now.
>>>
>>> Our Server:
>>> Dual-CPU with 1.2 GHz
>>> 1.5 GB RAM
>>>
>>> Our Problem: We are a Community. Between 19 and 21 o clock we have
>>> >350 User in the Community. But then, the Database are very slow. And
>>> we have per CPU ~20-30% idle-time.
>>
>>
>>
>> May we know the postgres version that you are running and
>> see the query that run slow ?
>
>
> Postgres: 7.3.2
> Query: All queries
>
> Configuration:
> max_connections = 1000  # Must be, if lower then 500 we become
> connection-errors
> shared_buffers = 5000        # 2*max_connections, min 16
> max_fsm_relations = 1000    # min 10, fsm is free space map
> max_fsm_pages = 2000000      # min 1000, fsm is free space map
> max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10
> wal_buffers = 2000            # min 4
>
> sort_mem = 32768             # min 32
> vacuum_mem = 32768           # min 1024
>
> fsync = false
>
> enable_seqscan = true
> enable_indexscan = true
> enable_tidscan = true
> enable_sort = true
> enable_nestloop = true
> enable_mergejoin = true
> enable_hashjoin = true
>
> effective_cache_size = 96000  # default in 8k pages

With 500 connection at the sime time 32MB for sort_mem can be too much.
What say "iostat 1"  and "vmstat 1" ?

Try also to reduce this costs:

random_page_cost = 2.5
cpu_tuple_cost = 0.005
cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.0005


BTW take a query and show us the result of explain analyze.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola