Hello Alvaro, On Montag, 11. Mai 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Philipp Marek wrote: > > A few days before we found the machine much slower, because of the > > autovacuum processes that were started automatically ["autovacuum: VACUUM > > ... (to prevent wraparound)"]. > > > > After several days we killed that, and, as a quick workaround, changed > > "autovacuum_freeze_max_age" to 1G and restarted the server, which worked > > as before (and didn't ran the autovacuum processes). > > Several days? How large is your vacuum_cost_delay and > autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay parameters? They're set to 0 and 20ms resp. > > As a next idea we changed the cluster/reindex script to set > > "vacuum_freeze_min_age=0" before the CLUSTER call, hoping that this would > > solve our transaction ID wraparound problem. > > REINDEX? What are you doing REINDEX for? Some tables get CLUSTERed; I put an option in the script to just do a REINDEX, if wanted. That's just the name of the script, it normally doesn't run REINDEX. Regards, Phil -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general