From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: brauagustin-susc@yahoo.com.ar
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Low CPU Usage
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:52:51 +0100
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brauagustin-susc@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
> Recently I have installed a brand new server with a Pentium IV 3.2 GHz, SATA Disk, 2GB of Ram in Debian 4.0r1 with PostgreSQL 8.2.4 (previously a 8.1.9).
> I have other similar server with an IDE disk, Red Hat EL 4 and PostgreSQL 8.2.3
>
> I have almost the same postgresql.conf in both servers, but in the new one (I have more work_mem than the other one) things go really slow. I began to monitor i/o disk and it's really ok, I have test disk with hdparm and it's 5 times faster than the IDE one.
> Running the same queries in both servers in the new one it envolves almost 4 minutes instead of 18 seconds in the old one.
> Both databases are the same, I have vacuum them and I don't know how to manage this issue.
Have you ANALYZEd all tables?
Try running EXPLAIN ANALYZE on the query on both servers, and see if
they're using the same plan.
> The only weird thing is than in the older server running the query it uses 30% of CPU instead of 3 o 5 % of the new one!!!
That implies that it's doing much more I/O on the new server, so the CPU
just sits and waits for data to arrive from the disk.
That does iostat say about disk utilization on both servers?
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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