From: | Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Aggressive autovacuuming ? |
Date: | 2010-06-20 17:44:29 |
Message-ID: | 4C1E537D.5030904@krogh.cc |
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Hi.
I have been wondering if anyone has been experimenting with "really
agressive"
autovacuuming. The database I'm adminstrating rarely have "long running"
transactions
(over several minutes). And a fair amount of buffercache and an OS cache of
(at best 64GB). A lot of the OS cache is being used for read-caching.
My thought was that if I tuned autovacuum to be "really aggressive" then
I could get autovacuum to actually vacuum the tuples before they
get evicted from the OS cache thus effectively "saving" the IO-overhead
of vacuuming.
The largest consequence I can see at the moment is that when I get a
full vacuum (for preventing transaction-id wraparound) it would be
run with the same aggressive settings, thus giving a real performance
hit in that situation.
Has anyone tried to do similar? What is your experience?
Is the idea totally bogus?
Jesper
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Jesper Krogh
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