On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Jordan Tomkinson <jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
taken before the ~7000 rows were entered.
relation | size
-------------------------------+--------
public.mdl_log | 595 MB
public.mdl_forum_posts | 375 MB
public.mdl_log_coumodact_ix | 197 MB
public.mdl_user | 191 MB
public.mdl_cache_text | 162 MB
public.mdl_log_usecou_ix | 137 MB
public.mdl_log_act_ix | 119 MB
public.mdl_log_cmi_ix | 97 MB
public.mdl_log_tim_ix | 97 MB
public.mdl_log_id_pk | 97 MB
public.mdl_question_states | 48 MB
public.mdl_stats_user_daily | 48 MB
public.mdl_hotpot_responses | 47 MB
public.mdl_register_downloads | 45 MB
public.mdl_message_read | 37 MB
public.mdl_course_display | 37 MB
public.mdl_stats_user_weekly | 31 MB
public.mdl_mnet_log | 27 MB
public.mdl_user_ema_ix | 26 MB
public.mdl_regidown_url_ix | 23 MB
(20 rows)
Taken after 9000 rows entered, by this stage performance is terrible.
relation | size
-------------------------------+--------
public.mdl_log | 597 MB
public.mdl_forum_posts | 389 MB
public.mdl_log_coumodact_ix | 198 MB
public.mdl_user | 193 MB
public.mdl_cache_text | 162 MB
public.mdl_log_usecou_ix | 137 MB
public.mdl_log_act_ix | 119 MB
public.mdl_log_cmi_ix | 98 MB
public.mdl_log_tim_ix | 97 MB
public.mdl_log_id_pk | 97 MB
public.mdl_question_states | 48 MB
public.mdl_stats_user_daily | 48 MB
public.mdl_hotpot_responses | 47 MB
public.mdl_register_downloads | 45 MB
public.mdl_message_read | 37 MB
public.mdl_course_display | 37 MB
public.mdl_stats_user_weekly | 31 MB
public.mdl_mnet_log | 27 MB
public.mdl_user_ema_ix | 26 MB
public.mdl_regidown_url_ix | 23 MB
(20 rows)
as you can see, the tables arent growing by much (only a few mb) so is this really to do with buffer/cache size?
I set shared_buffers to 3072 (from 2048) and it hasnt made much improvement, requests are still taking longer and longer to execute.
