From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql 9.0.2 explain analyze very slow (10x), compared to actual query time
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:07:53 -0500
Message-ID: <25677.1294844873@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Regarding gettimeofday (2), i wrote this program :
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <sys/time.h>
> int main(int argc,char** argv) {
> struct timeval *tp=calloc(1,sizeof(struct timeval));
> int runna;
> for (runna=0;runna<1000000;runna++) {
> int rc=gettimeofday(tp,NULL);
> long micros = tp->tv_sec * 1000000 + tp->tv_usec;
> printf("cur_time=%u micro secs\n",micros);
> }
> }
Right offhand I'd wonder whether that was more bound by gettimeofday or
by printf. Please try it without printf in the loop.
> 3) Test machine (thereafter called FBSD_TEST) :
> System: FreeBSD 8.1, 4 x AMD Phenom(tm) 965 @ 3.4 GHz, 8GB memory
> DB: PostgreSQL 9.0.2, shared_buffers=5GB, work_mem=512MB, db size=7GB
The shared_buffers setting seems way out of line compared to actual
memory on this machine. Maybe it's swapping.
> i get the following execution times: (with \timing) (note however that FBSD_DEV has a considerably smaller database, the other two are compareable)
> FBSD_DEV : query : 240,419 ms, EXPLAIN ANALYZE query : Total runtime: 538.468 ms
> LINUX_PROD : query : 219.568 ms, EXPLAIN ANALYZE query : Total runtime: 216.926 ms
> FBSD_TEST : query : 2587,465 ms, EPXLAIN ANALYZE query : Total runtime: 93711.648 ms
> The last numbers seem huge.
Are they in fact the same query plans in each case?
regards, tom lane
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