Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000

From: "Marcus Andree S(dot) Magalhaes" <marcus(dot)magalhaes(at)vlinfo(dot)com(dot)br>
To: <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: <marcus(dot)magalhaes(at)vlinfo(dot)com(dot)br>, <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, <nfesposi(at)sourceweave(dot)net>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000
Date: 2004-03-29 10:57:43
Message-ID: 61715.200.174.148.100.1080557863.squirrel@webmail.webnow.com.br
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> Marcus,
>
>> We are experiencing exactly the same problem here, and we use 7.4 on
>> Linux/i386 SMP (2 processors). Our databases does even more access:
>> about 30k selects per hour, 10k updates and inserts per hour
>>
>> Vacuum analyze is done daily.
>
> What is your max_fsm_pages setting? If you are getting 10,000
> updates per hour, daily VACUUM ANALYZE may not be enough.
>

max_fsm_pages is set to 500000

> Also do you run VACUUM ANALYZE as a superuser, or as a regular user?
>

As a regular user (database owner). Is thery any difference when vacuuming
as a super user?

> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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