On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:08:53PM +0000, Scott Rankin wrote: > We recently moved our production database systems from a 9.4 running on a self-managed EC2 instance to 9.6.10 on Amazon’s AWS (same RAM, CPU). After the move, we’re finding that certain queries that we run against a GIN full-text index have some occasionally very slow executions and I’m struggling to figure out what to do about it. I would be very grateful for any ideas! > > The setup we have is a 32-core, 244 GB RAM primary with a same-sized read replica. The queries are running off the replica, but performance is roughly the same between the master and the replica. > > Here’s a query that’s performing badly: Can you compare or show the explain(analyze,buffers) for a fast query instance vs slow query instance ? Is it slower due to index access or heap? Due to cache misses ? Also, you have big ram - have you tried disabling KSM or THP ? https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170718180152.GE17566%40telsasoft.com Justin
