On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's not true at all.
>
> If you have many relations in your cluster that have at some point been
> touched, the starts collector can create a *significant* load on the I/o
> system. I've come across several cases where the only choice was to disable
> the collector completely, even given all the drawbacks from that.
Thanks Magnus, I thought that other response sounded a bit fanciful :-)
So is there any way to predict the load this will have? Or just try
it and hope for the best? :-)
Right now on our 8.3 system it is off and we'd like to turn it on
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