Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Karl Wright wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Karl Wright wrote:

> >>I am afraid that I did answer this.  My largest tables are the ones
> >>continually being updated.  The smaller ones are updated only
> >>infrequently.
> >
> >Can you afford to vacuum them in parallel?
>
> Hmm, interesting question.  If VACUUM is disk limited then it wouldn't
> help, probably, unless I moved various tables to different disks
> somehow.  Let me think about whether that might be possible.

Well, is it disk limited?  Do you have the vacuum_delay stuff enabled?

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