From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Vinubalaji Gopal <vgopal@abaca.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: vacuum in Postgresql 8.0.x slowing down the database
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:02:13 -0700
Message-ID: <20080326130213.3797bfe1@jd-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080326124956.49e1c13d@vinu-ubuntu.abaca>
References: <20080326124956.49e1c13d@vinu-ubuntu.abaca>
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:49:56 -0800
Vinubalaji Gopal <vgopal@abaca.com> wrote:
> The big table has never been reindexed and has a primary, unique key
> with btree index and one foreign key constraint.
The slowness is likely attributed to Vacuum's use of I/O. When vacuum
is running what does iostat -k 10 say?
Joshua D. Drake
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