On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:02:18 +0100,
Joao Miguel Ferreira <jmf@estg.ipvc.pt> wrote:
>
> My database gets about 30 INSERTs per minute, about 60 UPDATEs per
> minute and about 30 DELETEs per minute in a way that line counts tend to
> stabilize. The test is done in such a way that I can asure a constant
> average rate of INSERTs and the same average rate of DELETEs (after a
> certain life time for each record).
>
> Dispite this, the file system size still grows (at about 500KB in about
> 1000 minutes).
How often are you vacuuming the table?