From: John Huttley <John@mib-infotech.co.nz>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Slow updates, poor IO
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:09:31 +1200
Message-ID: <48DD6BAB.8040302@mib-infotech.co.nz> (raw)
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Hi Greg,
I've got 32M shared on a 1G machine and 16 checkpoint segments.
I'll run some tests against 64 segments and see what happens.
Your previous postings were extremely helpful wrt the MVCC issue.
I thank you!
-john
Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Huttley wrote:
>
>> running update file set perms='0664' took about 10 mins
>
> What do you have checkpoint_segments and shared_buffers set to? If
> you want something that's doing lots of updates to perform well, you
> need to let PostgreSQL have a decent size chunk of memory to buffer
> the index writes with, so it's more likely they'll get combined into
> larger and therefore more easily sorted blocks rather than as more
> random ones. The randomness of the writes is why your write rate is
> so slow. You also need to cut down on the frequency of checkpoints
> which are very costly on this type of statement.
>
> Also: which version of PostgreSQL? 8.3 includes an improvement aimed
> at updates like this you might benefit from.
>
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
>
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