Re: database size growing continously

Thank you all for the fast responses!

I changed the delete's schedule from daily to hourly and I will let you
know the result. This seems to be the most promising step.

The next one is tuning 'max_fsm_pages'.
Increasing max_fsm_pages can be also helpful, but I've read that
'vacuum verbose ...' will issue warnings if max_fsm_pages is too small.
I've never seen such messag, this command is either run and finish or
goes to an endless loop as it was written in my initial e-mail.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:59:48AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Peter Meszaros <pme(at)prolan(dot)hu> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I use postgresql 8.3.7 as a huge queue. There is a very simple table
> > with six columns and two indices, and about 6 million records are
> > written into it in every day continously commited every 10 seconds from
> > 8 clients. The table stores approximately 120 million records, because a
> > cron job daily deletes those ones are older than 20 day. Autovacuum is
> > on and every settings is the factory default except some unrelated ones
> > (listen address, authorization). But my database is growing,
> > characteristically ~600MByte/day, but sometimes much slower (eg. 10MB,
> > or even 0!!!).
>
> Sounds like you're blowing out your free space map. Things to try:
>
> 1: delete your rows in smaller batches. Like every hour delete
> everything over 20 days so you don't delete them all at once one time
> a day.
> 2: crank up max fsm pages large enough to hold all the dead tuples.
> 3: lower the autovacuum cost delay
> 4: get faster hard drives so that vacuum can keep up without causing
> your system to slow to a crawl while vacuum is running.

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