Re: VACUUMs take twice as long across all nodes

["Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:35:56PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:17:29 -0500
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure that there's nothing else happening on the machine that
> > could affect the vacuum times? Like, say a backup? Or perhaps updates
> > coming in from Slony that didn't used to be there?
> 
> I'm absolutely certain. The backups run from only one slave, given that
> it is a full copy of node 1. Our overnight traffic has not increased
> any, and the nightly backups show that the overall size of the DB has
> not increased more than usual growth.
> 
> Plus, I have fairly verbose logging, and it's not showing anything out
> of the ordinary. 
> 
> Like I said, it's one of those awful hypothesis/hand-waving problems :)

Well, the fact that it's happening on all your nodes leads me to think
Slony is somehow involved. Perhaps it suddenly decided to change how
often it's issuing syncs? I know it issues vacuums as well, so maybe
that's got something to do with it... (though I'm guessing you've
already looked in pg_stat_activity/logs to see if anything
correlates...) Still, it might be worth asking about this on the slony
list...
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