On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Mike Blackwell <mike.blackwell@xxxxxxx> wrote: > We're seeing slow application performance on a PostgreSQL 9.1 server which > appears to be relatively lightly loaded. Some graphs from pgstatview are at > http://www2.uptimeforce.com/pgstatview/e35ba4e7db0842a1b9cf2e10a4c03d91/ > These cover approximately 40 minutes, during which there was some activity > from a web application and two bulk loads in process. > > The machine running the bulk loads (perl scripts) is also running at about > 70% idle with very little iowait. That seems to suggest network latency to > me. > > Am I missing something in the server stats that would indicate a problem? > If not, where should I look next? I'd run vmstat and look for high cs or int numbers (100k and above) to see if you're maybe seeing an issue with that. A lot of times a "slow" server is just too much process switching. But yeah, the graphs you've posted don't seem overly bad. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance