Re: Autovacuum help..

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Sundar Narayanaswamy <sundar007(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum help..
Date: 2006-08-06 14:51:03
Message-ID: 44D601D7.4040005@zeut.net
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Using 8.1.4
> Have autovacuum running and it shows on the logs as running.
> Ever couple of days in the last week when I tried to run vacuum analyze
> postgresql complained that I needed to increase my fsm_pages.
>
> I am going to start scheduling vacuum analyze in crontab.. but if
> autovacuum is running shouldn't I not need to be running vacuum
> analyze?. and more importantly shouldn't I not be running out of fsm_pages?

In many instances the default thresholds for autovacuum are too
conservative. You can try making it more aggressive and see what
happens, you can do this generally, or on a table specific basis.

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