>>> "Tory M Blue" <tmblue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > tell me if i should plan upgrades to 8.3.4.. It's a good idea. It should be painless -- drop in and restart. > After Reindex > My Indexes > 1.5G /data/clsindex > > After 2 weeks > My indexes > 6.8G /data/clsindex > > This is 2 weeks. and throughout those 2 weeks I can see performance > degrading. In fact I just bumped the memory footprint of my server to > 32gigs from 8gigs Make sure that effective_cache_size reflects this. > This is a transactional DB with over 800K updates happening each day. > tons of updates and deletes. autovac is on and I do a analyze each > night after the dump Make sure that you run as VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE and look at the last few lines; you might need to increase your free space manager allocations. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance