Re: slow queries, possibly disk io

On 5/26/05, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote:
> > I have some queries that have significan't slowed down in the last
> > couple days. It's gone from 10 seconds to over 2 mins.
> >
> > The cpu has never gone over 35% in the servers lifetime, but the load
> > average is over 8.0 right now. I'm assuming this is probably due to
> > disk io.
> 
> You sure it's not a severe lack of vacuuming that's the problem?
> 

It's vacuumed hourly. If it needs to be more than that I could do it I
guess. But from everything I've been told, hourly should be enough.

-Josh