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Re: dbt-2 tuning results with postgresql-8.3.5


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gabrielle Roth <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Subject: Re: dbt-2 tuning results with postgresql-8.3.5
  • Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:01:06 -0300
  • Message-id: <20081223120106.GC6217@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>

Mark Wong escribió:

> Hrm, tracking just the launcher process certainly doesn't help.  Are
> the spawned processed short lived?  I take a snapshot of
> /proc/<pid>/io data every 60 seconds.

The worker processes can be short-lived, but if they are, obviously they
are not vacuuming the large tables.  If you want to track all autovacuum
actions, change autovacuum_log_min_messages to 0.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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