| From: | Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Tim Allen <tim(at)proximity(dot)com(dot)au> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: SAN performance mystery | 
| Date: | 2006-06-23 11:56:16 | 
| Message-ID: | 449BD6E0.10305@logix-tt.com | 
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Hi, Tim,
Tim Allen wrote:
> One thing that has been
> apparent is that autovacuum has not been able to keep the database
> sufficiently tamed. A pg_dump/pg_restore cycle reduced the total
> database size from 81G to 36G.
Two first shots:
- Increase your free_space_map settings, until (auto)vacuum does not
warn about a too small FSM setting any more
- Tune autovacuum to run more often, possibly with a higher delay
setting to lower the load.
If you still have the original database around,
> Performing the restore took about 23 hours.
Try to put the WAL on another spindle, and increase the WAL size /
checkpoint segments.
When most of the restore time was spent in index creation, increase the
sort mem / maintainance work mem settings.
HTH,
Markus
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