| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj(at)illumen(dot)com>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Autovacuum stopped running |
| Date: | 2010-05-01 14:26:33 |
| Message-ID: | 4BDBF3C90200002500031147@gw.wicourts.gov |
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"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj(at)illumen(dot)com> wrote:
> I had a very strange occurrence 2 days ago where autovacuum
> appears to have stopped running.
What did you see which led you to that conclusion? Did ps show the
'autovacuum launcher process'?
> I did not see any error messages in pg_log. The problem caused a
> file which is usually around 50Mb but which gets updated
> extensively to grow to 105GB, which in turn brought the server's
> performance down to unusable levels.
Were there any long-running transactions showing in
pg_stat_activity? (That would include transactions showing '<IDLE>
in transaction'.)
-Kevin
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