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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat postgresql issues - system running really slow Post 302275831 by clive306 on Monday 12th of January 2009 09:40:27 AM
Old 01-12-2009
postgresql issues - system running really slow

Hi All,

I'm new here.

i was wondering if anyone could shed a light on the problem i am having.
I use a system for distributing broadband amongst users of for example a hotel, the system was designed by someone in the US and it is based on redhat 2.4 (i know its old) and the system uses Postgresl NOT mysql.

the problem i am having is that i cannot contact the company for linux support no more and the system itself is failing fast. the problem is speed. its really slow at performing database request, in some cases so slow that it just doesn't work at all.

I have a script on the system calles auto_vacumm for postgresql and it is setup in crontab to run daily, but this seems to make no difference to the performance of the server.

could anyone point me in the right direction to solving the problem, i have checked 'top' and the CPU is running @ 90%+ idle.

any information would be very much appreciated.

thanks in advance
Clive.
 

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PGTUNE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 PGTUNE(1)

NAME
pgtune - generate an optimized postgresql.conf file SYNOPSIS
pgtune [ options ] -i $PGDATA/postgresql.conf -o $PGDATA/postgresql.conf.pgtune DESCRIPTION
pgtune takes the wimpy default postgresql.conf and expands the database server to be as powerful as the hardware it's being deployed on. pgtune works by taking an existing postgresql.conf file as an input, making changes to it based on the amount of RAM in your server and suggested workload, and output a new file. OPTIONS
-i, --input-config Specifies the current postgresql.conf file. -o, --output-config Specifies the file name for the new postgresql.conf file. -M, --memory Use this parameter to specify total system memory. If not specified, pgtune will attempt to detect memory size. -T, --type Specifies database type. Valid options are: DW, OLTP, Web, Mixed, Desktop -c, --connections Specifies number of maximum connections expected. If not specified, it depends on database type. -D, --debug Enables debugging mode. -S, --settings Directory where settings data files are located at. Defaults to the directory where the script is being run from. The RPM package includes a patch to use the correct location these files were installed into. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. AUTHOR
pgtune was written by Gregory Smith. This manual page was written by Rodolphe Quiedeville <rodolphe@quiedeville.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). November 2, 2009 PGTUNE(1)
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