Re: BUG #1660: Growing used memory and critical performance loss - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #1660: Growing used memory and critical performance loss
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Msg-id 20050511204429.GB10281@surnet.cl
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In response to BUG #1660: Growing used memory and critical performance loss  ("Bogdan Matei" <bogdan@in-consulting.net>)
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Bogdan Matei wrote:

> These are the efects. First of all we thought that is our application that
> consumes all the performance of  Postgresql, with a predilection in the peak
> time of traffic, we improved it very well but even so there is no change.
> What is weird is that the only solution that we found is to reconfigure and
> recreate the database at every 2-3 days. When is imediately created the
> memory used is about 180MB then it constantly grows.

The question that jumps at me is, what is your vacuum strategy?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
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