Maximum reasonable free space map

From: Phillip Berry <pberry(at)stellaconcepts(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Maximum reasonable free space map
Date: 2008-12-17 00:55:29
Message-ID: 200812171155.29697.pberry@stellaconcepts.com
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Hi Everyone,

Just wondering what the maximum reasonable free space map setting should be? I'm receiving the
following advice from vacuum:

INFO: free space map contains 170803 pages in 117 relations
DETAIL: A total of 185000 page slots are in use (including overhead).
733008 page slots are required to track all free space.
Current limits are: 185000 page slots, 5000 relations, using 1623 KB.
NOTICE: number of page slots needed (733008) exceeds max_fsm_pages (185000)
HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter "max_fsm_pages" to a value over 733008.

I thought 185K was pretty high, is going to 700K+ reasonable? I've got 16GB of ram and am running
very high volume 100GB+ DBs.

Cheers
Phil

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