Re: [PERFORM] poor VACUUM performance on large tables

2005-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Based on this, it looks like we could stand to bump up our FSM another > couple hundred thousand. Does it buy us anything to reduce the number > of FSM relations from the default of 1000? Not a lot; as the comment says, those slots are only about 50 byte

Re: [PERFORM] poor VACUUM performance on large tables

2005-09-06 Thread Jan Peterson
Thomas F. O'Connell: >Do you have your Free Space Map settings configured appropriately? Our current FSM settings are: max_fsm_pages = 50 # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each max_fsm_relations = 1000# min 100, ~50 bytes each > You'll want to run a VACUUM VERBOSE and note

Re: [PERFORM] poor VACUUM performance on large tables

2005-09-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have been experiencing poor performance of VACUUM in our production > database. Which PG version, exactly? > Everything works great until our rolling delete kicks in. Of course, > we are doing periodic VACUUMS on all tables, with frequent VACUUMs on

Re: [PERFORM] poor VACUUM performance on large tables

2005-09-04 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Sep 4, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Jan Peterson wrote: Hello, We have been experiencing poor performance of VACUUM in our production database. Relevant details of our implementation are as follows: 1. We have a database that grows to about 100GB. 2. The database is a mixture of large and small ta

[PERFORM] poor VACUUM performance on large tables

2005-09-03 Thread Jan Peterson
Hello, We have been experiencing poor performance of VACUUM in our production database. Relevant details of our implementation are as follows: 1. We have a database that grows to about 100GB. 2. The database is a mixture of large and small tables. 3. Bulk data (stored primarily in pg_largeobj