On 3/2/05 12:16 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would you post the complete VACUUM VERBOSE log? The CPU/elapsed time lines > would help us identify where the time is going. Mailed. I do see stats like: CPU 518.88s/25.17u sec elapsed 10825.33 sec. CPU 884.96s/64.35u sec elapsed 13793.13 sec. CPU 132.46s/6.66u sec elapsed 2435.42 sec. CPU 49.25s/4.15u sec elapsed 414.71 sec. This is a dual CPU hyperthreaded (which probably makes little difference here) 2.4Ghz RedHat 3.0. The database is on an 8-disk SCSI hardware RAID 5 with 10k rpm disks. Pg_xlog is on a separate volume. I thought it was a 2.6 kernel, but it looks like it is 2.4.20. I need to monitor the system when the vacuum is running to see if sar/top show anything. I wonder if it's hitting the kswapd thrashing problem? Wes ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)