Re: Why threads every 30 seconds?

From: Bryan Henderson <bryanh(at)giraffe-data(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why threads every 30 seconds?
Date: 2016-06-09 02:39:30
Message-ID: 67122.bryanh@giraffe-data.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

>>> Looking at audit logs, I see that my Postgresql server generates a new thread
>>> precisely every 30 seconds, in two series (so 4 threads every minute). This
>>> is an otherwise idle server.
>
>>> Does anyone know what these threads are for? Just curious.
>
>Autovacuum, likely. The rate would depend on your autovacuum_naptime
>and how many active databases you have.

Yep, that was it, thanks.

I had the default autovacuum_naptime of 1 minute, and had two Postgresql
clusters runing. I turned off autovacuum and these threads disappeared.

Still not sure how it comes to twice a minute per cluster. There are 5
databases, and as far as I know, a client connection to one of them, not
doing anything, while this was happening.

--
Bryan Henderson San Jose, California

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Rob Sargent 2016-06-09 03:05:22 Re: Automate copy - Postgres 9.2
Previous Message Patrick B 2016-06-09 02:04:14 Re: Automate copy - Postgres 9.2