On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does this max_fsm_pages value seem OK for a 46GB database? > I've clustered all the tables that seemed to be exhibiting large amounts > of bloat. My big DB is about 70 on disk. I have fsm pages set to 3.4 million, and occasionally that gets overrun. It is nearly catastrophic to us when that happens as performance takes a serious nose dive. This is probably the major reason switching to 8.4 is high on our list. Our DB has a *lot* of data churn, and that makes a lot of pages with space on them to track. One more thing you may wish to consider is running re-index on your tables. I found that a lot of pages with empty space were compacted and the number of fsm entries went down significantly when I did this last week. For me this was more important than running cluster to pack the data tables themselves. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
