On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:28:38PM -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008, Joao Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > well..... see for yourself... (360 RAM , 524 SWAP) that's what it is... > > it supposed to be somewhat an embedded product... > > Clearly your hardware is your speed limitation. If you're swapping at all, > anything running on the machine is going to be slow.
The vmstat output only showed the odd block going in and out; but performance is only really going to suffer when it's thrashing. If the swap in number stays in the double digits for a reasonable amount of time then you should probably look at what's causing it. Giving memory back to the system to use for caching the file system can be good, lots of shared memory can also be good. Building indexes takes time and IO bandwidth, maybe you could look at building less of them? I'd be tempted to pull the import script apart into its constituent parts, i.e. the initial data load, and then all the constraints/index builds separately. Then run through executing them by hand and see what you can change to make things more efficient. Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
