On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:09:23AM +0200, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > > I scheduled a cron job every hour or so that runs an analyze on the > 4/5 most intensive relations and sleeps 30 seconds between every > analyze. > > This has optimized db response times when many clients run together. > I wanted to report this, maybe it can be helpful for others > out there... :-) This suggests to me that your statistics need a lot of updating. You _might_ find that setting the statistics to a higher number on some columns of some of your tables will allow you to analyse less frequently. That's a good thing just because ANALYSE will impose an I/O load. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A certain description of men are for getting out of debt, yet are against all taxes for raising money to pay it off. --Alexander Hamilton