I've contemplated doing this but have been hesitant for a number of
reasons.  Moving storage to SSDs eliminated a lot of bottlenecks for us
though.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Tim Spindler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Martha,
>
> Not that I have anything to add but I would like to know what are some
> good practices also.  We also have similar issues where tables are getting
> quite large.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Martha Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> We have been on Evergreen for nearly 2 years.  Recently it has been
>> taking significantly longer to load patron records than it used to.  We
>> load files just about weekly for our college libraries and the files
>> contain thousands of records.
>>
>> I asked a few people at the conference about trimming tables and found
>> that some delete data out of auditor tables.  Our actor_usr_history table
>> is around 14 million rows and asset_copy_history is over 26 million rows.
>>  We don't currently age the circulations and the actor.circulation table is
>> up around 67 million rows.
>>
>> I'm wondering what system administrators do periodically to keep the
>> database running efficiently and what the potential trade-offs are.
>>
>> --
>> Martha Driscoll
>> Systems Manager
>> North of Boston Library Exchange
>> Danvers, Massachusetts
>> www.noblenet.org
>>
>
>
>
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> Tim Spindler
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