Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A519FBB04 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:00:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07369-02-3 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:00:03 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372799FBC4E for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:00:05 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.3 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE795AF027 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trofast.sesse.net ([129.241.93.32]) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjK3P-0005rI-O2 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:59:56 +0200 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HjK3P-0006au-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:59:55 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:59:55 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Intermitent slow queries Message-ID: <20070502185955.GA25310@uio.no> Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <24F6514DFA6FD544BCA10A5C9A47E761028D86A8@rtpwexc06.RCC_NT.RTI.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.20.4 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.106 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.105, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200705/13 X-Sequence-Number: 24403 On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:55:26PM -0400, Ron wrote: > The fastest test, and possible fix, is to go and buy more RAM. See > if 16MB of RAM, heck even 10MB, makes the problem go away or delays > it's onset. Something tells me 16MB of RAM is not going to help him much? :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/