Hi, On 23 November 2011 13:20, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I investigated, and found that for the past ~18 hours, > there's one autovacuum process that has been running, and not making > any obvious progress: snip... > I'm using the defaults for all the *vacuum* options in > postgresql.conf, except for: > log_autovacuum_min_duration = 2500 Defaults are: autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = 20 msec autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = -1 (ie vacuum_cost_limit is used) vacuum_cost_limit = 200 If table is busy -- many updates and deletes then auto vacuum exhausts cost limit almost immediately. You can try to set autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay to -1 (which disables cost based auto vacuum) but you don't want to saturate your disks. Other option is to increase vacuum_cost_limit/autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit -- Ondrej Ivanic (ondrej.ivanic@xxxxxxxxx) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
