> I'm having a pretty serious problem with postgresql's performance. > Currently, I have a cron task that is set to restart and vacuumdb -faz > every six hours. If that doesn't happen, the disk goes from 10% full > to 95% full within 2 days (and it's a 90GB disk...with the database > being a 2MB download after dump), and the CPU goes from running at > around a 2% load to a 99+% load right away (the stats look like a > square wave).
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