>> > > Hi Nico, > > No one has mentioned the elephant in the room, but a database can > be very I/O intensive and you may not be getting the performance > you need from your virtual disk running on your VMware disk subsystem. > What do IOmeter or other disk performance evaluation software report? > > Regards, > Ken Anecdatum: Moving from a contended VMware hard-disk based filesystem running over the network, to a bare metal RAID10 SSD, resulted in many DB operations running 20-30x faster. Table sizes circa 10-20G, millions of rows. Graeme. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance