Unexplained Major Vacuum Archive Activity During Vacuum

From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Unexplained Major Vacuum Archive Activity During Vacuum
Date: 2012-11-01 14:04:09
Message-ID: 50928159.5080000@optionshouse.com
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Hey guys,

I don't notice any errors, which just makes this even more strange. But
after weeks of operating normally, our 10pm manual vacuum job generated
transaction logs basically equivalent to 3/4 of our database, and I
can't find any explanation. This amount is about 6x higher than usual.

Before I go crazy and tear the box apart, does anyone know of some
internal change that may cause intermittent marking of pages to increase
without related database activity?

Or did I just vacuum a database with a corrupt CPU or piece of RAM? (Let
me say again, I see no errors anywhere in the database logs.)

--
Shaun Thomas
OptionsHouse | 141 W. Jackson Blvd. | Suite 500 | Chicago IL, 60604
312-444-8534
sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com

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