Re: [PERFORM] pg 9.1 brings host machine down

2012-06-06 Thread Julien Cigar
if you have millions of files in data/pgsql_tmp it means that you're using temporary tables (very) heavily .. or you've a huge sorting activity (of large tables) and that the sort happens on disk (you can verify that with an EXPLAIN ANALYZE of the query, you'll see something like "external disk

Re: [PERFORM] pg 9.1 brings host machine down

2012-06-06 Thread Patric Bechtel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, which fs with which settings are you using? What's the work_mem settings? Which size do the files have? Depending on the answer of above questions I would suggest: - - RAM disk, SSD or separate disk for pgsql_tmp - - using xfs with noatime,nodi

Re: [PERFORM] pg 9.1 brings host machine down

2012-06-06 Thread Vitalii Tymchyshyn
Hello. Seen this already. It looks like cross join + sort. Badly configured ORM tools like Hibernate with multiple one-to-many relationships fetched with 'join' strategy may produce such result. Unfortunately I don't know if it's possible to protect from such a case at server side. Best rega

[PERFORM] pg 9.1 brings host machine down

2012-06-06 Thread Konstantin Mikhailov
I'm faced with a problem running postgres 9.1.3 which seems to nobody else see before. Tried to search and only one relevant post fond (about millions of files in pgsql_tmp). Sympthoms: Some postgres process size is getting abnormally big compared to other postgres processes. Top shows the 'norma