The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5774 Logged by: Bala Murugan Email address: b...@a-cti.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3.7 Operating system: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) - Kernel \r (\l). Description: VACCUM & REINDEX kills production environement Details:
Iam running postgres 8.3 version for more than 2 yrs on Amazon EC2 Instance, in recent days Vaccum and reindex make the application down for more than 2hrs. I am not sure this because of my configuration or postgres. My hardware details : High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each) 1690 GB of instance storage 64-bit platform conf : ## Connections port = 5432 max_connections = 1000 listen_addresses = '*' ## Memory usage shared_buffers = '1 GB' maintenance_work_mem = '448 MB' max_fsm_pages = 220000 max_fsm_relations = 1000 max_prepared_transactions = 0 ## Performance checkpoint_segments = 16 effective_cache_size = '5 GB' ## To fix bad plans caused by partitioning 3/8/2010 random_page_cost = 6 ## Logging # Where and how: log_destination = 'stderr' logging_collector = on log_directory = 'pg_log' log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d.log' #log_line_prefix = '%t %r[%p]: [%l-1]' log_line_prefix = 'user=%u,db=%d ' # What: log_min_duration_statement = 200 log_connections = on log_disconnections = on log_duration = off log_statement = 'ddl' # Cleanup log_rotation_age = '1d' log_rotation_size = 0 log_temp_files = 0 ## Statistics #default_statistics_target = 700 default_statistics_target = 100 ## Autovacuum #autovacuum = on #autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.1 ## Bulkloading - keep these on! fsync = on full_page_writes = on # We're partitioning the historysystem.history table constraint_exclusion = on checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9 wal_buffers = '8 MB' # Changed 3/2/2010 in response to historySystem.history queries work_mem = '44 MB' statement_timeout = 0 thanks, Bala -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs