From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: PostgreSQL Performance List <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL underestimates sorting
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:28:12 +0100
Message-ID: <45645E7C.4030101@logix-tt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122135434.GA9669@uio.no>
References: <456423B3.7010505@logix-tt.com>
<20061122135434.GA9669@uio.no>
Hi, Steinar,
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
>> The Backend allocates gigs of memory (we've set sort_mem to 1 gig), and
>> then starts spilling out more Gigs of temporary data to the disk.
>
> How much RAM is in the server? Remember that sort_mem is _per sort_, so if
> you have multiple sorts, it might allocate several multiples of the amount
> you set up.
That one machine has 16 Gigs of ram, and about 10 Gigs tend to be "free"
/ part of the Linux blocklayer cache.
The temporary data is not swapping, it's the Postgres on-disk sort
algorithm.
HTH,
Markus
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