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Vacuum time degrading


  • From: Wes <wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com>
  • To: Postgresql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Vacuum time degrading
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:02:04 -0600
  • Message-id: <BE48FF0C.7C01%wespvp@syntegra.com> <text/plain>

We've been doing a vacuum every night.  With about 254 million rows, it was
taking abut 0.8 hours.  Now a few months later with about 456 million rows
it is taking 4.8 hours.  I did check the archives and didn't find anything
like this.

Why is the vacuum time not going up linearly?  Since vacuum has to
sequentially read the entire database, I would have expected a linear
increase - about 1.5 hours now.

There are currently no deletes or modifies to the database - only inserts.

This is on PostgreSQL 7.4.5, RedHat ES 3.0.

Wes





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