Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DD61337B81 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:20:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61020-03 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:20:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from marajade.localdomain (vcs5.camavision.com [63.228.164.252]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B333B1337B6E for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:20:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.10.84] (unknown [192.168.10.84]) (Authenticated sender: andy) by marajade.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 777EE428DF; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:20:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4D41A952.3000900@squeakycode.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:20:18 -0600 From: Andy Colson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kohl CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: High load, References: <4D4189FE.7080608@squeakycode.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/281 X-Sequence-Number: 42068 On 1/27/2011 9:09 AM, Michael Kohl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Andy Colson wrote: >> Have you run each of your queries through explain analyze lately? > > A code review including checking of queries is on our agenda. > >> You are vacuuming/autovacuuming, correct? > > Sure :-) > > Thank you, > Michael > Oh, also, when the box is really busy, have you watched vmstat to see if you start swapping? -Andy