Re: Server vacuuming the same table again and again

Dmitry,

How is you filesystem under database exactly mount? (mount -l) And
just in case, while increasing checkpoint_segments, better to increase
checkpoint_timeout, otherwise all checkpoints will be still frequent
because segment threshold will be never reached. You could monitor
your pg_stat_bgwriter to understand which type of checkpoint happens
more frequent.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Дмитрий Шалашов <skaurus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I understand that autovacuum has to be done, but not right after previous
> autovacuum? And then again and again.

That is exactly what happen: your autovacuum is not aggresive enough
and that is why it runs constantly instead of doing it s job by small
portions.

you should try something like this:

autovacuum | on
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor | 0.05
autovacuum_analyze_threshold | 5
autovacuum_freeze_max_age | 200000000
autovacuum_max_workers | 10 # set 10 for example and
then you could see - if they all working constantly, maybe you need
more. or less if not.
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age | 400000000
autovacuum_naptime | 1
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay | 10
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit | -1
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor | 0.01
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold | 10
log_autovacuum_min_duration | -1

Best regards, Ilya

> Best regards,
> Dmitriy Shalashov
>
>
> 2014-04-25 12:12 GMT+04:00 Ilya Kosmodemiansky
> <ilya(dot)kosmodemiansky(at)postgresql-consulting(dot)com>:
>
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Дмитрий Шалашов <skaurus(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > cancelled autovacuum and it seems to help.
>>
>> > In the morning autovacuum was back. And then it finished and I gone to
>> > work.
>>
>> Actually, thise two things are tightly bound and there is no chance to
>> avoid vacuum, you can only postpone it, this kind of work eventually
>> supposed to be done.
>>
>> What you really need to do as a first thing - configure your
>> autovacuum aggressively enough and then mayde ionice autovacuum
>> instead of mission critical ckeckpointer or bgwriter.
>>
>> Which exact values have you in the following settings:
>>
>> autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor
>> autovacuum_analyze_threshold
>> autovacuum_freeze_max_age
>> autovacuum_max_workers
>> autovacuum_naptime
>> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
>> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit
>> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor
>> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold
>> log_autovacuum_min_duration
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Best regards, Ilya
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Dmitriy Shalashov
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>

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