Re: Very slow catalog query

["Just Someone" <just(dot)some(at)gmail(dot)com>]

Hi,


>  I'm wondering... just 4GB of ram?
>  What's the "normal" "hammering" -- a.k.a. user access -- to all of this?
>  PG, as expected, launches a separate process for each connection. this eats up
>  resources quite quickly....
>  Did you check your system processes with 'top' ? how's it looking for swap
>  usage?

Swap usage is almost nil. And I only have a constant number of
connections (about 10-15) as it serves as the backend for a Web
application. Transactions run at about 20-40 per second, but mostly
very short and simple ones.

Thanks,

Guy.