Trenta sis <trenta.sis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Linux Server (Debian) with Postgres 8.3 and I have problems with a > massive update, about 400000 updates/inserts. Updates or Inserts? > If I execute about 100000 it seems all ok, but when I execute 400000, I have > the same problem with or without a transaction (I need to do with a > transaction) increase memory usage and disk usage. > With a execution of 400.000 inserts/update server begin woring well, but after > 100 seconds of executions increase usage of RAM, and then Swap and finally all > RAM and swap are used and execution can't finish. > I have made some tuning in server, I have modified: > -shared_buffers 1024 Mb > -work_mem 512 Mb Way too high, but that's not the problem here... (i guess, depends on the real query, see below about explain analyse) > -effective_cache_size 2048Mb You have 4GB, but you are defined only 1 GByte for shared_mem and you have defined only 2GB for shared_mem and os-cache together. What about the other 2 GByte? > -random_page_cost 2.0 you have changed the default, why? > -checkpoint_segments 64 > -wal_buffers 8Mb > -max_prepared_transaction 100 > -synchronous_commit off > > what is wrong in this configuration to executes this inserts/update? Hard to guess, can you provide the output generated from EXPLAIN ANALYSE <your query>? > > Server has: 4Gb RAM, 3GB Swap and SATA Disk with RAID5 RAID5 isn't a good choise for a database server... Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
