Re: Amazon High I/O instances

On 09/12/12 10:01 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote:
> pgbench initialization has been going on for almost 5 hours now and
> still stuck before vacuum starts .. something is definitely wrong as I
> don't remember it took so long first time I created the db....

pgbench initialization with a high scale factor, like the -s 10000 I
frequently use, does take quite a few hours.    you need a large
maintenance_work_mem, or the create index phase will take a really long
time to index the 150GB worth of tables its created.



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