Re: High QPS, random index writes and vacuum

From: peter plachta <pplachta(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High QPS, random index writes and vacuum
Date: 2023-04-18 02:44:47
Message-ID: CAGTqnmbpQiqoN+6btKnU_CPLdAZBbfexqJ3KWfowem9kVV2dJw@mail.gmail.com
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Thank you David -- I increased this to 1GB as well (seeing as that was the
max). We are doing mostly single passes now.

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 7:40 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 12:35, peter plachta <pplachta(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I increased work_mem to 2Gb
>
> maintenance_work_mem is the configuration option that vacuum uses to
> control how much memory it'll make available for storage of dead
> tuples. I believe 1GB would allow 178,956,970 tuples to be stored
> before multiple passes would be required. The chunk of memory for dead
> tuple storage is capped at 1GB.
>
> David
>

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