Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM
Date
Msg-id 20070905160347.GG6102@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM  ("Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>)
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Carlo Stonebanks wrote:

> >> It sounds like you will need a huge lot of vacuuming effort to keep up.
> Maybe you should lower autovac scale factors so that your tables are
> visited more frequently.  A vacuum_delay of 40 sounds like too much
> though.
> <<
>
> Does autovacuum not impede performance while it is vacuuming a table?

It causes I/O.  Not sure what else you have in mind.  vacuum_delay
throttles the I/O usage, at the expense of longer vacuum times.

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