Dear George, Do you see this issue on 9.0.3, the current and the recommended 9.x version? Best, Aleksey On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:38 AM, George Woodring <george.woodring@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We recently upgraded from 8.3.something to 9.0.1. With 9.0.1, we have a > huge spike in vacuums every 8 days only on one of our DB servers. We go > from approx 20 vacuums every 5 minutes to 350 per 5 minutes. This lasts for > several hours, then stops. I have attached a graph that shows the > occurrence. I am assuming that it needs to vacuum all of my tables to avoid > some sort of wrap around counter. I am wondering what is the best way to > make autovacuum spread this out so it will not be quite a big of a hit. I > we did not see this with 8.3 and I kept the setting the same after the > upgrade. > Here are my autovacuum settings: > autovacuum = on > log_autovacuum_min_duration = 0 > autovacuum_max_workers = 5 > autovacuum_naptime = 1min > autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 100 > autovacuum_analyze_threshold = 100 > autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.1 > autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.05 > autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 200000000 > autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = 20ms > autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = -1 > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > Thanks, > George Woodring > > -- > iGLASS Networks > www.iglass.net > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general