Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From jody brownell
Subject Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat
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Msg-id 200606212008.56137.jody.brownell@q1labs.com
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In response to Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Well, for one we did introduce a TX leak which was preventing autovac from running. I guess that was _the_ issue.

I have since fixed it and an now testing.... looks much better, nothing concerning....
(fingers crossed until morning :)). debug logs are full of vac/anal of the tables... so, for now I am back
on track moving forward... Now that auto vac is actually running, the box is feeling slightly more sluggish.

BTW - As soon as we deliver to QA, I will post the test case for the memory leak I was seeing the other day.
(I have not forgotten, I am just swamped)

Thanks for the help all. Much appreciated.
Cheers.

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 19:11, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:41:45PM -0300, jody brownell wrote:
> > BTW, in production with a similar load - autovacuum with default out of the box
> > settings seems to work quite well....
> >
> > I double checked this earlier today.
>
> So what's different between production and the machine with the problem?
>
> The issue with autovac is that it will only vacuum one table at a time,
> so if it's off vacuuming some other table for a long period of time it
> won't be touching this table, which will be a problem. Now, if that's
> actually what's happening...

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