> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:26 PM > > "David Esposito" <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > As promised, here are two runs of VACUUM VERBOSE on the > problem table ... > > BTW, the tail of the VACUUM VERBOSE output ought to have > something about > overall usage of the FSM --- what does that look like? > When I was first looking into this problem, I googled around a bit and saw that there is a message that's printed when the fsm_pages or fsm_relations is too low ... but I just double checked and can't find the phrase "max_fsm_pages" in any of my logs from the past 2 months (i only run postgres with log_min_error_statement of NOTICE so if it gets logged as an INFO, i probably wouldn't have it in the log files) ... Saturday 1:30am INFO: free space map: 525 relations, 125128 pages stored; 136480 total pages needed DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 10000 relations + 1000000 pages = 6511 kB shared memory. Monday 1:30am INFO: free space map: 525 relations, 168816 pages stored; 171904 total pages needed DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 10000 relations + 1000000 pages = 6511 kB shared memory. Tuesday 1:30am INFO: free space map: 528 relations, 172357 pages stored; 170096 total pages needed DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 10000 relations + 1000000 pages = 6511 kB shared memory. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq