Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?
Date: 2010-08-18 20:57:13
Message-ID: 4C6C4929.4030800@agliodbs.com
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> Tested that. It does look like if I increase vacuum_cost_limit to 10000
> and lower vacuum_cost_page_dirty to 10, it reads 5-7 pages and writes
> 2-3 before each pollsys. The math seems completely wrong on that,
> though -- it should be 50 and 30 pages, or similar. If I can, I'll test
> a vacuum without cost_delay and make sure the pollsys() are connected to
> the cost delay and not something else.

Hmmm. Looks like, at least in 8.3, running a manual vacuum on a table
doesn't prevent anti-wraparound vacuum from restarting. So I can't do
any further testing until we can restart the server.

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-- Josh Berkus
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