Re: VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Paragon" <lr(at)pcorp(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables
Date: 2008-04-13 15:54:26
Message-ID: 2765.1208102066@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Paragon" <lr(at)pcorp(dot)us> writes:
>> Is it actually *doing* anything, like consuming CPU or I/O -- and if so
>> which? How much does VACUUM VERBOSE print before getting stuck?

> --If I start the
> vacuum verbose ky.ky_edges;
> and monitor vmstat 1 looks like this

Sure looks like a near-idle machine to me :-(.

I think that the vacuum must be stuck on a lock. What other Postgres
processes have you got, and what are they doing?

regards, tom lane

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