I ran into an issue where, on Postgres instances that have a very large number of databases per cluster (~15K), the
I won't ask why there's a cluster with 15,000 databases...
So auto-vacuum never really sleeps. Even changing the autovacuum_naptime and setting it to a much higher value (from 1min to 50min) did not have any effect at all. Both strace and the postgres logs showed a similar behaviour: lots of reads to global.stat file and constantly iterating through all the databases non-stop and executing autovacuum.
Is there anything that I can do to minimize the CPU load impact that this process is having?
What if you disable autovacuum and run it manually?
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