On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Daniel Lundqvist wrote:
> I have a pgsql database containing DHCP lease informtation,one table for
> each month.
> As we get more and more customers there will be more rows in the tables. The
> table for august
> now contains about 2.7 million rows. There is about 5 inserts per second.
>
> Table definition:
>
> start | boolean
> ts | timestamp
> mac | macaddr
> port | character varying(50)
> ip | inet
>
> There are indexes on ts,mac,port and ip.
> Database is running under Linux 2.2 on a Compaq with a P3 800 and 256MB
> memory.
>
> Now for the problem :) I get what I think is very poor response times,about
> 90-140s to get a result when searching on ip.
>
> The only options I have set in postgresql.conf is:
> wal_files = 8
> wal_sync_method = fdatasync
>
> What can I do to tune this database besides memory upgrade and adding a
> additional CPU?
Have you been running vacuum analyze? What are the queries you're running
and what does explain show for them?
---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
