On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:02 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> Frequently, when people ask for help because they've exceed max_fsm*,
> it's because they're not paying attention to their systems, and therefore
> the problem has been occurring for a while before it got so bad that
> they couldn't ignore it. As a result, a full vacuum is frequently a
> necessity.
>
> Folks who are monitoring their databases closely don't hit this
> problem nearly as often.
>
How does one monitor it closely anyway? the warning comes when one does
a vacuum verbose and with autovacuum turned on, I don't even see it
anywhere.