Re: Unexpectedly high disk space usage RESOLVED (Manual reindex/vacuum)

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Lists <lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com>, pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unexpectedly high disk space usage RESOLVED (Manual reindex/vacuum)
Date: 2012-11-10 22:08:52
Message-ID: CAOR=d=206oJiZ_mkencYONYToSeTsbGuAu9s_9KkkwDz9hgi-w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> As well, since the default nap time is 1 minute, it will take at least
>> 50 minutes to vacuum each db as nap time is how long autovac waits
>> between databases.
>
> That isn't how it works. The naptime is per database, not per
> cluster. If the naptime is 1 minute and there are 50 "active"
> databases, then it will launch a new worker every 1.2 seconds
> (assuming the old ones finish fast enough that doing so would not
> exceed autovacuum_max_workers)

Hmmm. That was not my understanding from previous discussions on nap time.

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