Re: Vacuum goes worse

Heikki Linnakangas a écrit :
> Stéphane Schildknecht wrote:
>
>> I wonder vacuum verbose would tell me if fsm parameters were not too
>> badly configured, but I can't get the 4 last lines of the output...
>>
>
> Why not?
>

I would like to know... Seems like vacuum does not want me to see these
precious line. I really don't know why.
>
>> Whats's more, I wonder what we could monitor to get some explanation of
>> the recent time increase, and then have a quite-sure way of configuring
>> the server.
>>
>
> sar or iostat output would be a good start, to determine if it's waiting
> for I/O or what.
>

Ok, I'll try that.
>
> Increasing checkpoint_segments seems like a good idea then. You should
> increase checkpoint_timeout as well, 180 is just 3 minutes. How much
> concurrent activity is there in the database? 30 pg_xlog files equals
> 512 MB of WAL; that's quite a lot.
>

I don't know exactly how far, but yes, activity is high.
> Have you changed the vacuum cost delay settings from the defaults?
>

Not yet.


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