Re: Getting Slow

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Lester <joe_lester(at)sweetwater(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Getting Slow
Date: 2007-06-08 02:24:28
Message-ID: 20070608022428.GE20828@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Also if autovacuum is eating all your I/O you may want to look into
> > throttling it back a bit by setting autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay to a
> > non-zero value.
>
> BTW, why is it that autovacuum_cost_delay isn't enabled by default?
> I can hardly believe that anyone will want to run it without that.
> *Especially* not with multiple workers configured by default.

Just because we haven't agreed a value. Default autovacuum parameters
is something we should definitely discuss for 8.3.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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