Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-12 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
a bit, in my experience. Do 'PRAGMA page_size = 8192' before you create the database. Doing both may cause excessive memory use (20 * 8K = ...). I've never tried that. Gé Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: Robert, [snip] i said i print these rows to /dev/null too in my

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-12 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Thomas, with sum(n1) added query runs twice as slow. as i was told its because sqlite has to fetch data row. fine, but why its soo slow?! and it Because for each row it has to compute the aggregate key, find the aggregator for that key and increment the sum for that aggregate key.

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-12 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT a,n1 FROM data WHERE a = 18234721 GROUP BY a); time sqlite3 db test.sql 30 1024 1417 13.14u 1.06s 0:14.40 98.6% Have you tried doing the query like this: SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT a,nl FROM data WHERE a-18234721=0 GROUP BY a); i just

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-12 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
John. i think, i know what is going on here. the problem is that every time i do an indexed scan sqlite has to 1) fetch index pages 2) fetch data pages that match where condition because both index and data are in the same file sqlite has to perform insane amount of seek() calls and

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-11 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Christian, thanks for the reply. i'm having strange performance problem with sqlite-3.2.0. consider the following table [snip] now the problem: 1) if i do a select with an idex it takes 27 sec. to get 92 rows time sqlite3 db 'select n2 from data where a = 18234721' /dev/null

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-11 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Robert, i guess, i can believe this. however its pretty disappointing to get 50% improvement on 30 times less dataset :( but how do you explain this? sqlite .schema data CREATE TABLE data ( a INTEGER, b INTEGER, c CHAR, d INTEGER, e

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-11 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Robert, time sqlite3 db 'select n1 from data where a = 18234721' /dev/null 26.15u 0.59s 0:27.00 99.0% time sqlite3 db 'select n1 from data where a = 18234721' /dev/null 26.04u 0.61s 0:26.91 99.0% time sqlite3 db 'select e from data where a = 18234721' /dev/null 12.22u 0.41s

Re: [sqlite] sqlite performance problem

2005-04-11 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Robert, [snip] i said i print these rows to /dev/null too in my perl code. plus the perl code does some other things such as joining these rows with other hashes and summing the numbers. That's fine. I was merely trying to account for the 50% speed difference between the two