On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:46:37PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > The autovacuum was clearly not enough, so we also have a crontab that > vacuums the tables every hour. This is PG 8.2.9. How did you determine this? What was it not enough for? Which tables? Why didn't you tune autovacuum differently? I think the cron jobs are your problem. > These cron jobs are taking over 35 minutes for a vacuum! What's the > use of a vacuum if it takes that long, and the DB performance is > tragic in the meantime? VACUUM uses disk bandwidth. I suspect you are causing part of your problem. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
