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Hi,

I have a pentium III server, running on RHL 7.1 with 256 MB RAM,

The following is output of the "top" command for query which involves
fetch from a table with about MAX of 10,000 rows.

-------------------------------------TOP------------------------------ PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU
%MEM  TIME COMMAND
 
3174 postgres  19   0  3328 3328  2672 R    99.0  1.3   0:58 postmaster1199 nobody     9   0  3728 3728  2704 S     0.5
1.4   0:03 httpd3035 root      10   0  1048 1048   840 R     0.3  0.4   0:15 top   1 root       8   0   544  544   472
S    0.0  0.2   0:04 init   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd   3 root
 


Now, my question is, it takes ages(2 mints) for the query to run (regularly
VACUUM ANALYZED Database) and if you look closely at the resources
consumed by the postgres, it is almost taking away 100% CPU time.

How can we make it faster and to consume less resources ??

Can anybody suggest the steps they are taking for time-critical
applications to run efficiently.

Thanks in advance

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