On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:45:34AM -0600, Barry Moore wrote:
Does anyone know how I can repeatedly run the same query in the
"worst case scenario" of no postgres data in the disk cache (e.g.,
clear the page cache or force it to be ignored)?
Depends on your OS. On linux you can run:
echo 1 >
If you are running on a Linux kernel, try /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. I
believe the appropriate command is "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches".
Since Postgres has its own cache of data, the above followed by a PG
restart should do what you are looking for.
Ranga
> Barry Moore wrote:
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>> I have a
Barry Moore wrote:
I have a very slow query that I'm trying to tune. I think my
performance tuning is being complicated by the system's page cache.
If a run the query after the system has been busy with other tasks
for quite a long time then the query can take up to 8-10 minutes to
compl
On 3/18/07, Barry Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone know how I can repeatedly run the same query in the
"worst case scenario" of no postgres data in the disk cache (e.g.,
clear the page cache or force it to be ignored)?
try to disconnect from postgresql, reconnect, rerun the query.
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I have a very slow query that I'm trying to tune. I think my
performance tuning is being complicated by the system's page cache.
If a run the query after the system has been busy with other tasks
for quite a long time then the query can take up to 8-10 minutes to
complete. If I then rerun
