Is there any chance of backporting the integrated version to 8.0? We have about 50,000 tables and the autovacuum daemon churns at 100% cpu for long stretches... any improvement over that would be welcome.
Thanks,
Ben
On 7/29/05, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:54:07PM -0500, Jeff Lund wrote:
Hi,
In the future please post to a list instead of asking me privately. I
have picked a list arbitrarily to post the response.
> I am a DBA using Postgres 8.0.3, and it is great. Could someone
> tell me what is wrong or what the problems are with fix pg_autovacuum
> O(n^2) behavior.
The problem is that pg_autovacuum uses a query against the pg_class
system catalog, and has to compare the results with its internal table
list. This was done using a O(n^2) algorithm. I'm not sure if a fix
was developed for this problem, but I suspect not.
The integrated autovacuum process that has been developed for 8.1 does
not have this problem because it uses a radically different approach to
obtaining/keeping information. In fact, each iteration is a new
process, so there's no table list kept in memory.
I might add that I completely rewrote the autovacuum daemon, and I don't
think a single line of the original code is present in the new version.
The ideas, of course, are mostly the same. (For the time being at least
-- there's no saying where the new code will evolve to.)
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org >)
"Las mujeres son como hondas: mientras más resistencia tienen,
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