# Check on our table sizes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-on-our-table-sizes/368344
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 31, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-on-our-table-sizes/368344 "2025-05-31T10:19:51Z")
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### Author: ![char](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@char](https://meta.discourse.org/u/char)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-on-our-table-sizes/368344/1 "2025-05-31T10:19:51Z")

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Hi, I’m maintaining a public forum, I’m experimenting very slow operations right now.  
Monitoring points towards very slow database operations, so I checked the table sizes and…

 ![CWZnmTr](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/f/6/4f6288ff4d875a9360f75562880e62748dd92ab0.png)  
I’m eyeing the ` posts index_size`, which is a clear outlier: am I correct in thinking these sizes are involved with our current slowdowns?

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