On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:45 +0000, Renato Oliveira wrote:
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> I have been using Postgres but I am not an expert on the subject.
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> I would be very grateful if someone could point to the right direction
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> We have a web application written in JAVA, using jaboss as a servlet.
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> There are 100 connections open to the database server at any given
> time, apparently using hibernate.
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> We are using Postgres 8.2.4 compiled
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> The database size is 155GB
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> We have 8GB of RAM
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> 300GB Hard disk Raid1
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> Everything is within a single Volume
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> Today the load average was as high as 15
Linux?
Are you using elevator=deadline?
How many spindles, what type of raid?
Are you doing proper maintenance?
Joshua D. Drake
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