Re: What is VACUUM waiting for?

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Michael Monnerie
<michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at> wrote:
> On Samstag 13 Dezember 2008 Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>> Do you have any vacuum delay setting turned on?  Perhaps they are too
>> high?
>
> Oh, I didn't remember there were some for normal vacuum, just the
> auto_vaccuum.
>
> vacuum_cost_delay = 250
> vacuum_cost_page_hit = 1
> vacuum_cost_page_miss = 10
> vacuum_cost_page_dirty = 20
> vacuum_cost_limit = 1000
>
> Are those values to high/low? What should one use?
>
> I think I will disable it at this one server, setting
> vacuum_cost_delay = 0
> because it's only one DB here. Still, I'd like to understand what values
> would be reasonable on a server with many DBs, as we have some.

Yeah, any vacuum cost_delay over 20 or so is pretty high.  I set it to
10 and vacuum doesn't get in the way but still runs reasonably fast.