Re: Vacuum I/O throttling - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Vacuum I/O throttling
Date
Msg-id 200309011645.h81GjTr15759@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Vacuum I/O throttling  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Guy Thornley <guy@esphion.com> writes:
> > Below is a patch for the lazy vacuum. It implements a simple I/O throttle so
> > boxen arnt killed for hours a day when VACUUM runs.
>
> Wasn't this idea tried and rejected already?  You haven't given us any
> information about actual performance.

What would be more valuable would be if VACUUM ran only when it know it
could reap a certain number of tuples, or there where FSM need for those
tuples.

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