Re: autovacuum daemon stops doing work after about an hour

Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Vivek Khera wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "MTO" == Matthew T O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Then it just sits there.  I started it at 11:35am, and it is now
>>>> 3:30pm.
>>
>>
>>
>> MTO> Weird.... Alphabetically speaking, is vkmlm."public"."user_list"
>> be the
>> MTO> last table in the last schema in the last database?  You are running
>>
>> conveniently, yes it is...
>>
>> MTO> with -d4, so you would get a message about going to sleep shortly
>> after
>> MTO> dealing with the last table, but you didn't get the sleep
>> message, so I
>> MTO> don't think the problem is that pg_autovacuum is sleeping for an
>> MTO> inordinate amount time.
>>
>> The only sleep logged was
>>
>> [2003-12-03 04:47:13 PM] 1 All DBs checked in: 84996853 usec, will
>> sleep for 469 secs.
>
>
> What I seen is:
>
>
> # tail -f auto.log
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] reltuples: 72;  relpages: 1
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] curr_analyze_count:  72; cur_delete_count:   0
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] ins_at_last_analyze: 72; del_at_last_vacuum: 0
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] insert_threshold:    572; delete_threshold    536
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] table name:     empdb."public"."contracts"
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] relfilenode: 17784;   relisshared: 0
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] reltuples: 347;  relpages: 5
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] curr_analyze_count:  347; cur_delete_count:   0
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] ins_at_last_analyze: 347; del_at_last_vacuum: 0
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] insert_threshold:    847; delete_threshold    673
>
>
> [ 5 minutes of delay ]  <----- LOOK THIS
>
>
> [2003-12-04 07:10:18 PM] 503 All DBs checked in: 179396 usec, will sleep
> for 300 secs.
> [2003-12-04 07:15:19 PM] 504 All DBs checked in: 98814 usec, will sleep
> for 300 secs.
>
> I think is a good Idea put a fflush after:
>
> fprintf(LOGOUTPUT, "[%s] %s\n", timebuffer, logentry);

Was I wrong ? If you are watching in tail the log believeme is really
annoying.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola