Re: Autovacuum is running forever

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Sachchida Ojha <sojha(at)secure-elements(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum is running forever
Date: 2007-08-21 21:54:41
Message-ID: 20070821215441.GA12717@alvh.no-ip.org
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Sachchida Ojha wrote:

> vacuum_cost_delay = 200

That is absurdly high. A setting of 10 is more likely to be useful.

> autovacuum_naptime = 3600

That is too high probably as well; particularly so if you have "updates
and deletes every second".

> #autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.4
> #autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.2

These too. Try 0.1 for both and see how it goes.

In short, you need autovacuum to run _way more often_ than you are.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
"Un poeta es un mundo encerrado en un hombre" (Victor Hugo)

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