Re: Autovacuum Tuning advice

From: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum Tuning advice
Date: 2010-03-01 07:08:02
Message-ID: 841727.16396.qm@web46102.mail.sp1.yahoo.com
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Joe wrote:

> I have a very busy system that takes about 9 million inserts per day and each record gets
> updated at least once after the insert (all for the one same table), there are other tables that
> get hit but not as severely. As suspected I am having a problem with table bloat. Any advice
> on how to be more aggressive with autovacuum? I am using 8.4.1. My machine has 4 Intel
> Xeon 3000 MHz Processors with 8 GB of Ram.
>
> Currently I am using only defaults for autovac.
>
> shared_buffers = 768MB # min 128kB
> work_mem = 1MB # min 64kB
> maintenance_work_mem = 384MB

<snip of default config settings>

Operating system ?

Any messages in logs ?

Greg W.

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