Hi, I have a 1.6TB database with over 330 tables on a 4TB NVMe SSD. All tables are static (no updates); most in 8M and 33M row sizes. Queries have been great, until recently. I use SQL-workbench/J (WB) and starting at any table, if I use up/down arrow to switch to another table, all that happens is WB queries the table to get the row count and a LIMIT of rows to display. If I set LIMIT to 10, I see one process in disk wait: $ top -b -n 1 | grep postgre PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1913118 postgres 20 0 172620 22184 21064 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.26 postgres 1913119 postgres 20 0 172744 11428 10240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 postgres 1913120 postgres 20 0 172756 8868 7680 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.42 postgres 1913122 postgres 20 0 172620 9988 8800 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.36 postgres 1913123 postgres 20 0 178300 9508 8160 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.29 postgres 1913124 postgres 20 0 176232 7908 6560 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 postgres 1931492 postgres 20 0 178044 21668 18720 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 postgres 1977002 postgres 20 0 182984 36992 31360 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.61 postgres 3851279 postgres 20 0 13544 6560 2880 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bash 3854720 postgres 20 0 10716 5416 4456 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 psql With LIMIT set to 500, this table has 2,148,035 rows (disk-wait process only): $ top -b -n 1 | grep postgre PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1977002 postgres 20 0 184708 37900 32000 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.83 postgres 2,152,372 rows -- took nearly 30 seconds $ top -b -n 1 | grep postgre PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1977002 postgres 20 0 184708 37900 32000 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.83 postgres Earlier, with LIMIT 500, I was seeing 3 processes in disk-wait. Also attached is the relevant system journal entries for one query that took 2 seconds and two more that took 62 and 52 seconds... Unlike the above, these had 3 processes in disk-wait -- see attached screenshot... I just stopped PG, updated the full backup which was done overnight (so the update took about a second), restarted PG and the problem persists... Any suggestions where to look next? Thanks, Pierre
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