I am posting back to let you know that the DB is working fine since the changes in the autovacuum settings. I am including the changes I made for later reference to anyone that may face similar issues. Thank you all for your time and help ! On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:52, Kiriakos Tsourapas wrote: > Dear all, > > Just letting you know that making the autovacuum policy more aggressive seems to have fixed the problem. > It's been 4 days now and everything is running smoothly. > > Just a reminder, what I changed was : > autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.01 > autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.005 > making autovacuum run at 1% instead of 20% (the dafault) and the analyze run at 0,5% instead of 10%. > > Maybe it's more aggressive than needed... I will monitor and post back. > > > Thank you all for your help. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
