On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:08 PM, u235sentinel <u235sentinel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm tracking a problem with our tables being bloated and was curious if > someone regularly kills autovacuum jobs, will autovacuum later reattempt to > vacuum the table it was killed under? > > I've made autovacuum more aggressive and given more worker threads. Yet for > some reason we're not keeping up. Can you show us what you've changed to make autovac more aggressive? You might want to make sure you've lowered autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay (mine's at 0 as we have 28 or so disks in a single RAID-10 and lots of spare IO). Also raise autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit much higher (mine's at 5000). Assuming these tables get updated a lot, I'm gonna guess that you're not having a problem with too high of threshold settings but with auto-vac keeping up. But it's just a guess. Also, what do you get from things like iostat, vmstat, and sar as regards your IO utilization and such? If your IO system is always at 100% then more aggressive vacuuming isn't gonna do much, because you'll always be behind. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
