Re: Problem with 8.4 stats collector high load

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jakub Ouhrabka <jakub(dot)ouhrabka(at)comgate(dot)cz>, Jakub Ouhrabka <kuba(at)comgate(dot)cz>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with 8.4 stats collector high load
Date: 2010-02-16 23:12:30
Message-ID: 20100216231230.GN5330@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Jakub Ouhrabka wrote:
> >> Was autovacuum requesting to write this 20MB file 650x per minute?
>
> > Yes, exactly.
>
> > Ideally, autovacuum would only request a new copy of the file if the one
> > it got was considerably out of date. Obviously a tenth of a second is
> > not old enough.
>
> Wasn't it you that insisted on a short staleness criterion for autovac
> in the first place?

well, my current opinion is that we should spend some nonzero amount of
thought into figuring out what to do.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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