Re: High CPU load caused by the autovacuum launcher process

From: Steven Crandell <steven(dot)crandell(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High CPU load caused by the autovacuum launcher process
Date: 2018-06-08 10:15:19
Message-ID: CALvesgktcX_OFCFFFiFvPajrBTRMHoy0nGPGpiFNktyAyUSmMQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:38 AM, Deepak Goel <deicool(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I guess the Htop captured by you is for a particular instant. You will
> have to record the cpu utilisation for a longer duration and then analyze.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/08/2018 02:24 AM, Owayss Kabtoul wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I ran into an issue where, on Postgres instances that have a very large
>>> number of databases per cluster (~15K), the
>>>
>>
>> I won't ask why there's a cluster with 15,000 databases...
>>
>> So auto-vacuum never really sleeps. Even changing the autovacuum_naptime
>>> and setting it to a much higher value (from 1min to 50min) did not have any
>>> effect at all. Both strace and the postgres logs showed a similar
>>> behaviour: lots of reads to global.stat file and constantly iterating
>>> through all the databases non-stop and executing autovacuum.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there anything that I can do to minimize the CPU load impact that
>>> this process is having?
>>>
>>
>> What if you disable autovacuum and run it manually?
>>
>> --
>> Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
>>
>>
>
What do you have your autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit set to?

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