Re: could not write to log -> PANIC -> System down

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Brandon Aiken <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: could not write to log -> PANIC -> System down
Date: 2006-12-14 22:59:07
Message-ID: 29056.1166137147@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:13:30PM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote:
>> No idea on the frequent autovacuuming. Do you do a lot of deletes?

> In those messages "processing" just means it woke up to see if there
> was anything to do. It probably didn't do anything. Waking up every
> minute is not that big a deal...

And more to the point, that *is* the default cycle interval, so the
behavior is expected. You can change autovacuum_naptime or whatever
it's called if you want something different.

regards, tom lane

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