my data directory is just 1.7G
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 14:33, Frank Finner wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:19:43 +0800 Jerome Macaranas <jerome(at)gmanmi(dot)tv>
thought long, then sat down and wrote:
> > im using RH9
> >
> > postgres 7.3.4
>
> Maybe you ran into the same problem I had about a year ago. See
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-03/msg00810.php and
> thread. My database became extremely slow, vacuum itself needed several
> hours instead of several minutes, after doing some weeks of heavy
> inserting.
>
> Vaccum obviously does not release all unused memory in 7.3.x.