Lonni J Friedman <netll...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Can you correlate the performance hit with any specific part of >> autovacuum? In particular, I'm wondering if it matters whether vacuum >> is cleaning tables or indexes --- it alternates between the two, and the >> access patterns are a bit different. You could probably watch what the >> autovac process is doing with strace to see what it's accessing.
> Is there something specific I should be looking for in the strace > output, or is this just a matter of correlating PID and FD to > pg_class.relfilenode ? Nah, just match up the files it touches with pg_class.relfilenode. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general