On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:10:00 -0500 Jonathan Vanasco <postgres@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a temporary fix I need to write some uploaded image files to PostgreSQL until a task server can read/process/delete them. > > The problem I've run into (via server load tests that model our production environment), is that these read/writes end up pushing the indexes used by other queries out of memory -- causing them to be re-read from disk. These files can be anywhere from 200k to 5MB. > > has anyone dealt with situations like this before and has any suggestions? I could use a dedicated db connection if that would introduce any options. PostgreSQL doesn't have any provisions for preferring one thing or another for storing in memory. The easiest thing I can think would be to add memory to the machine (or configure Postgres to use more) such that those files aren't pushing enough other pages out of memory to have a problematic impact. Another idea would be to put the image database on a different physical server, or run 2 instances of Postgres on a single server with the files in one database configured with a low shared_buffers value, and the rest of the data on the other database server configured with higher shared_buffers. I know these probably aren't the kind of answers you're looking for, but I don't have anything better to suggest; and the rest of the mailing list seems to be devoid of ideas as well. -- Bill Moran -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
