Thanks John. So what're the right settings? Anyway, right now Postgresql is servicing only one main connection, which is the REINDEX. All other stuff is switched off, no one else is connecting to the DB.
My issue with this table was the vaccum process would stop at this table, and take hours. So I thought something was wrong with this table. My version of PG was 9.0.11, and googling for similar issues brought up an old post by Tom Lane that suggested to the poster of that thread to upgrade. So now I have, and am at 9.0.17 -- I recognize this is not 9.3.5, but not sure we have the appetite right now for a massive upgrade. So what I'm trying to do is reindex this specific table. > iostat Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 (coco.MYDOMAIN.com) 08/02/2014 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 10.63 0.10 3.11 13.42 0.00 72.74 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn sda 284.10 43828.59 5729.27 84628259628 11062603842 sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 2272 10 sda2 3.08 44.97 989.21 86838949 1910058506 sda3 7.65 193.04 84.34 372745356 162860428 sda4 0.00 0.00 0.00 6 0 sda5 1.58 31.15 6.84 60140845 13208874 sda6 0.82 20.28 0.88 39161138 1693104 sda7 1.10 15.59 24.32 30101692 46962204 sda8 2.77 44.88 20.07 86661146 38754800 sda9 267.11 43478.67 4603.61 83952607992 8889065916 On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:56 AM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 8/2/2014 6:20 PM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: >> >> PS: CentOS 6 64 bit, 4 GB of RAM, Raid 1 Raptor disks. Postgresql.conf >> and TOP output during the running of the REINDEX are below.. >> >> >> ----POSTGRESQL.CONF----- >> >> max_connections = 180 >> superuser_reserved_connections = 5 >> shared_buffers = 512MB >> effective_cache_size = 1200MB >> temp_buffers = 32MB >> maintenance_work_mem = 320MB >> work_mem = 128MB > > > with 4GB of ram, and 180 connections, if you actually had all 180 > connections busy at once, you could use over 180 times work_mem, 180*128MB > in 4GB would be fatal. > > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general