Re: Swapping in 7.4.3 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: Swapping in 7.4.3
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In response to Swapping in 7.4.3  ("Jim Ewert" <jim.ewert@excite.com>)
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Jim Ewert wrote:
> When I went to 7.4.3 (Slackware 9.1) w/ JDBC, the improvements are that it doesn't initially take much memory (have
512M)and didn't swap. I ran a full vaccum and a cluster before installation, however speed degaded to 1 *second* /
updateof one row in 150 rows of data, within a day! pg_autovacuum now gives excellent performance however it is taking
66Mof swap; only 270k cached. 
>

Are you saying that your system stays fast now that you are using
pg_autovacuum, but pg_autovacuum is using 66M of memory?  Please
clarify, I'm not sure what question you want an answered.

Matthew


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