On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Rainer Mager wrote:
The data should be mostly ordered by date. It is all logged in semi-realtime such that 99% will be logged within an hour of the timestamp. Also, as stated above, during this query it was about 1.2 MB/s, which I know isn't great. I admit this isn't the best hardware in the world, but I would expect better than that for linear queries.
Might you have an unbalanced index tree? Reindexing would also solve that problem.
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