Re: [PERFORM] Query planner is using wrong index.

2006-04-07 Thread Brian Herlihy
--- Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Herlihy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My options seem to be - Fudge the analysis results so that the selectivity estimate changes. I have tested reducing n_distinct, but this doesn't seem to help. - Combine the columns into one column,

[PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and 8.0.7

2006-04-07 Thread Rafael Martinez Guerrero
Hello I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in a RHEL3/386linux server with 2xIntel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz / 4GB RAM. Some information: - There is no IO

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote: Hello I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in a RHEL3/386linux server with 2xIntel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz / 4GB RAM. Some

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and

2006-04-07 Thread Rafael Martinez Guerrero
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:31, Richard Huxton wrote: Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote: Hello I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in a RHEL3/386linux

[PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread Charles A. Landemaine
I have a web server with PostgreSQL and RHEL. It hosts a search engine, and each time some one makes a query, it uses the HDD Raid array. The DB is not very big, it is less than a GB. I plan to add more RAM anyway. What I'd like to do is find out how to keep the whole DB in RAM so that each time

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote: Any ideas of what I can test/configurate to find out why this happens? Thanks in advance. I haven't looked in detail at the plans, but what stands out to me is that you've got a sort with a lot of columns and you've halved sort_mem (work_mem). Try increasing it

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and

2006-04-07 Thread Rafael Martinez
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:41 +0200, Gábriel Ákos wrote: Any ideas of what I can test/configurate to find out why this happens? Thanks in advance. Increase work_mem to 50% of memory, and don't care about maintenance_work_mem and effective_cache_size, they don't matter in this case.

Re: [PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread Charles A. Landemaine
On 4/7/06, Matt Davies | Postgresql List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, what are you using as the search engine? Thank you. We designed the search engine ourself (we didn't use a ready-to-use solution). -- Charles A. Landemaine. ---(end of

Re: [PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread Matt Davies | Postgresql List
If memory serves me correctly I have seen several posts about this in the past. I'll try to recall highlights. 1. Create a md in linux sufficiently large enough to handle the data set you are wanting to store. 2. Create a HD based copy somewhere as your permanent storage mechanism. 3. Start

Spotting planner errors (was Re: [PERFORM] Query planner is using wrong index.)

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Tom Lane wrote: Brian Herlihy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I go, I have a question - From discussions on the Postgresql irc channel, and from reading the TODO list on the website, I am under the impression that there are no plans to allow optimizer hints, such as use index table_pkey. Is

Re: Spotting planner errors (was Re: [PERFORM] Query planner is using wrong index.)

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com writes: Tom - does the planner/executor know it's got row estimates wrong? That is, if I'm not running an EXPLAIN ANALYSE is there a point at which we could log planner estimate for X out by factor of Y? Not at the moment, but you could certainly imagine

Re: Spotting planner errors (was Re: [PERFORM] Query planner is using

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Tom Lane wrote: Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com writes: Tom - does the planner/executor know it's got row estimates wrong? That is, if I'm not running an EXPLAIN ANALYSE is there a point at which we could log planner estimate for X out by factor of Y? Not at the moment, but you could

Re: [PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Charles A. Landemaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'd like to do is find out how to keep the whole DB in RAM so that each time some one does a query, it doesn't use the HDD. Is it possible, if so, how? That should happen essentially for free, if the kernel doesn't have any better use for

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and 8.0.7

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Rafael Martinez Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in a RHEL3/386linux server with 2xIntel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz /

Re: [PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 4/7/06, Charles A. Landemaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a web server with PostgreSQL and RHEL. It hosts a search engine, and each time some one makes a query, it uses the HDD Raid array. The DB is not very big, it is less than a GB. I plan to add more RAM anyway. What I'd like to do

Re: [PERFORM] Loading the entire DB into RAM

2006-04-07 Thread PFC
** This has not been tested. Create a ramdisk of required size Create a Linux software RAID mirror between the ramdisk, and a partition of the same size. Mark the physical-disk as write-mostly (reads will go to the ramdisk) Format it and load data... On reboot

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and 8.0.7

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: Rafael Martinez Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in a RHEL3/386linux server with 2xIntel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU

[PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
Bing-bong, passenger announcement.. the panic train is now pulling into platform 8.1.3. Bing-bong. =) OK, having moved from our quad-xeon to an 8-CPU IBM pSeries 650 (8x1.45GHz POWER4 instead of 4 x 3GHz Xeon), our query times have shot up and our website is next to unusable. The IBM is not

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, having moved from our quad-xeon to an 8-CPU IBM pSeries 650 (8x1.45GHz POWER4 instead of 4 x 3GHz Xeon), our query times have shot up and our website is next to unusable. The IBM is not swapping (not with 16GB of RAM!), disk i/o is low, but there must

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 12:58, Gavin Hamill wrote: Bing-bong, passenger announcement.. the panic train is now pulling into platform 8.1.3. Bing-bong. =) OK, having moved from our quad-xeon to an 8-CPU IBM pSeries 650 (8x1.45GHz POWER4 instead of 4 x 3GHz Xeon), our query times have shot up

Re: [PERFORM] Same SQL, 104296ms of difference between 7.4.12 and

2006-04-07 Thread Rafael Martinez
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I wrote: Rafael Martinez Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a sql statement that takes 108489.780 ms with 8.0.7 in a RHEL4/amd64linux server with 2xAMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 2.00GHz / 8GB RAM and only 4193.588 ms with 7.4.12 in

Re: [PERFORM] bad performance on Solaris 10

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Mair
Ok, so I did a few runs for each of the sync methods, keeping all the rest constant and got this: open_datasync 0.7 fdatasync 4.6 fsync 4.5 fsync_writethrough not supported open_sync 0.6 in arbitrary units - higher is faster. Quite impressive!

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:41:39 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, having moved from our quad-xeon to an 8-CPU IBM pSeries 650 (8x1.45GHz POWER4 instead of 4 x 3GHz Xeon), our query times have shot up and our website is next to unusable. The IBM

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:54:21 -0500 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the same queries getting the same basic execution plan on both boxes? Turn on logging for slow queries, and explain analyze them on both machines to see if they are. See reply to Tom Lane :) I'd put the old 4 way

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that this is an OS issue. Maybe there are AIX tweaks that will get it up to the same or higher level of performance as your four way xeon. Maybe there aren't. The pSeries isn't much older than our

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:59:19 +0100 Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd put the old 4 way Xeon back in production and do some serious testing of this pSeries machine. IBM should be willing to help you, I hope. They probably would if this had been bought new - as it is, we have

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:59, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:54:21 -0500 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the same queries getting the same basic execution plan on both boxes? Turn on logging for slow queries, and explain analyze them on both machines to see if they

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Greg Stark
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is one hell of a moving target and I can't help but think I'm just missing something that's right in front of my nose, too close to see. I'm assuming you compiled postgres yourself? Do you have the output from the configure script? I'm wondering if

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gábriel Ákos
Gavin Hamill wrote: Bing-bong, passenger announcement.. the panic train is now pulling into platform 8.1.3. Bing-bong. =) OK, having moved from our quad-xeon to an 8-CPU IBM pSeries 650 (8x1.45GHz POWER4 instead of 4 x 3GHz Xeon), our query times have shot up and our website is next to

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:16:02 -0400 D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy@druid.net wrote: We also had problems with a high end AIX system and we got no help from IBM. They expected you to put Oracle on and if you used anything else you were on your own. Urk, I thought IBM were supposedly Linux sycophants

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:24:18 -0500 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See reply to Tom Lane :) I didn't see one go by yet... Could be sitting in the queue. If it's not arrived by now - EXPLAIN ANALYZE doesn't tell me anything :) Let us know if changing the fsync setting helps.

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:06:02 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pSeries isn't much older than our Xeon machine, and I expected the performance level to be exemplary out of the box.. I'm fairly surprised too. One thing I note from your comparison of settings is that the default

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Title: Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow. Gavin, On 4/7/06 2:24 PM, Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did look into the specs of the system, and the memory bw on the pSeries was /much/ greater than the Xeon - it's one of the things that really pushed me towards it

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's truss installed which seems to do the same as strace on Linux... and here's a wildly non-scientific glance.. I watched the 'topas' output (top for AIX) , identified a PID that was doing a lot of work, then attached truss to that pid. In addition

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Luke Lonergan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That said, I find typical memory bandwidth for the P4 in applications is limited at about 2GB/s. See here for more detail: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/standard/Bandwidth.html In fact, looking at the results there, the IBM 650m2 only gets 6GB/s

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Tom, On 4/7/06 3:02 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, we already know that Xeons suck about as badly as can be on that same measure; could the pSeries really be worse? I wouldn't be too surprised, but it sounds like it needs a test. Do we have a test for this? Is

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Luke Lonergan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/7/06 3:02 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, we already know that Xeons suck about as badly as can be on that same measure; could the pSeries really be worse? I wouldn't be too surprised, but it sounds like it needs a test.

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:56:49 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not good. Did the semop storms coincide with visible slowdown? (I'd assume so, but you didn't actually say...) If I'd been able to tell, then I'd tell you =) I'll have another go... Yes, there's a definate

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:56:49 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not good. Did the semop storms coincide with visible slowdown? (I'd assume so, but you didn't actually say...) Yes, there's a definate correlation here.. I attached truss to

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Gavin, On 4/7/06 3:27 PM, Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 278774: __semop(15728650, 0x0FFF7E80, 1)= 0 155712: __semop(15728650, 0x0FFF5920, 1)= 0 278774: __semop(15728649, 0x0FFF6F10, 1) 114914: __semop(15728649, 0x0FFF6A40, 1)= 0

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Tom Lane
Luke Lonergan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/7/06 3:27 PM, Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 278774: __semop(15728650, 0x0FFF7E80, 1)= 0 155712: __semop(15728650, 0x0FFF5920, 1)= 0 278774: __semop(15728649, 0x0FFF6F10, 1) Seems like you're hitting

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:52:20 -0400 Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you in a position to try your workload using PG CVS tip? There's a nontrivial possibility that we've already fixed this --- a couple months ago I did some work to reduce contention in the lock manager: Well, there's a

Re: [PERFORM] pg 8.1.3, AIX, huge box, painfully slow.

2006-04-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:56:52 -0700 Luke Lonergan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like you're hitting a very small target in RAM with these semop calls. I wonder what part of the code is doing this - Tom would know better how to trace it, but the equivalent of oprofile output would be nice.