Is there any data corruption/damage to the database if we forcefully kill autovacuum using cron job (if it is running longer than a predefined time frame). Regards Sachchida -----Original Message----- From: Sachchida Ojha Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:46 PM To: 'Michael Glaesemann' Cc: 'pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: Autovacuum is running forever Our model is to provode black box solutions to our customer. Black box, I mean application system, web sever and database is running on the same machine. We are running our sensor on 10 assets (windows machine) and sending asset data to the server at every 15 minutes. There are some other user operations going on to those assets at the same time. On server Cpu util ranging from 10-75% Mem util ranging from 15-50% Regards Sachchida -----Original Message----- From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:36 PM To: Sachchida Ojha Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Autovacuum is running forever On Aug 21, 2007, at 16:26 , Sachchida Ojha wrote: > In my OLTP system, we are inserting, updating and deleting the data > every second. > > Autovacuum started and never finished slowing down the whole system. There's the possibility that your autovacuum settings aren't aggressive enough for your system, so it's never able to catch up. Without knowing details it's hard to say for certain. What are your autovacuum settings and other details about the load on your system? Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
