Joe wrote: > I have a very busy system that takes about 9 million inserts per day and each record gets > updated at least once after the insert (all for the one same table), there are other tables that > get hit but not as severely. As suspected I am having a problem with table bloat. Any advice > on how to be more aggressive with autovacuum? I am using 8.4.1. My machine has 4 Intel > Xeon 3000 MHz Processors with 8 GB of Ram. > > Currently I am using only defaults for autovac. > > shared_buffers = 768MB # min 128kB > work_mem = 1MB # min 64kB > maintenance_work_mem = 384MB <snip of default config settings> Operating system ? Any messages in logs ? Greg W. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance