Your response somehow landed in the subject line, apparently truncated. I'll extract that to the message body and reply to what made it through. Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Firstly many thanks for responding. I am concerned because the > load averages have increased and users complaining of slowness. If performance has gotten worse, then something has changed. It would be helpful to know what. More users? New software? Database growth? Database bloat? (etc.) > I do not change settings frequenly. That doesn't mean your current settings can't be changed to make things better. > I was curious if there is any half dead component in th Have you reviewed what shows up if you run (as a database superuser)?: select * from pg_stat_activity; You might want to review this page: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
