On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 04:18:02PM +0100, Francesco Andreozzi wrote: > Hi all, i send this mesage because i just made a migration from my old > mysql db on a more robust postgres server. > I'm using version 8.1 on a linux debian 4.0 > i have a dual core XEON 2.33GHz and 2Gb of ram ... 2 disk 15k mirrored > database works good but the performance are horrible! i hope is my fault of > settings.... and this message is just a help request to see whats i missing > to set! > i did only few changes on a default postgresql.conf > i simply playd with shared buffer... but on a mysql to execute a simple > select with an order by the time was jus 1 or 2 seconds ... on this > installation the time it's about 10 seconds or more .... and if more than > one query is executed at the same time the time increase! > > i just add here a show all output to see if somethiong uis wrong ... i hope > someone can help me ! i really would like to use postgres on this > database!! > > Thankyou > Francesco > Francesco, Try increasing your work_memory value and shared_buffers. 8MB is not very large on a 2GB system. Also, 8.3.5 is much improved over 8.1. Cheers, Ken > shared_buffers 1000 ... > work_mem 1024 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin