On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deola...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Vlad Bailescu <v...@mojitosoftware.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Stats show only 3 tables get frequently autovacuumed >> >> Table Name Tuples inserted Tuples updated Tuples deleted Tuples HOT >> updated Live Tuples Dead Tuples Last vacuum Last autovacuum Last analyze Last >> autoanalyze Vacuum counter Autovacuum counter Analyze counter Autoanalyze >> counter Size vehicle_position 4689127 0 4689127 0 0 1985 >> 2013-02-01 11:46:46.441227+02 2013-01-31 14:48:00.775864+02 2013-02-01 >> 11:46:46.494234+02 0 3761 1 3754 4016 kB vehicle 2124 934640 0 924003 >> 2124 390 >> 2013-02-01 11:47:46.067695+02 2013-02-01 11:47:46.325444+02 0 1293 0 2038 >> 2448 >> kB input_current 10032 1649206 0 1635902 10032 1728 >> 2013-02-01 11:45:46.0681+02 2013-02-01 11:45:46.215048+02 0 442 0 1294 2336 >> kB >> > > So sure there are more than just one table involved here. Also, the last > column in the > output above shows that these are fairly large tables. In fact, if the > last column is to be > trusted, they are as large 37GB, 20GB and 12GB respectively. Note the kB > at the end of > those values. Also given the large number of inserts/deletes, I would > doubt if the table can > really remain that small. May be auto-vacuum is truncating most of it and > thats why you > see only a few MBs before it swells again by the time next vacuum cycles > runs. > > Whats your rate of insertion/deletion in the first table ? You also seem > to be updating the > last two tables quite heavily, but most of them are HOT updates, so your > tables should not > bloat too much. > > Thanks, > Pavan > > -- > Pavan Deolasee > http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavandeolasee > Pavan, it seems there's a small issue with copy-paste and column text-align. Table sizes are: 4136 kB 2448 kB 2336 kB The actual partition tables are very large (ie: vehicle_position_y2013_m01 is 6448 MB), but they don't seem to receive so much attention. The vehicle table gets updated very often because it has a foreign key to vehicle_position and that changes with every batch of data. We were able to reproduce this on a test VM with minimum workload to trigger autovacuum. Here's the relevant log portion: 2012-12-05 00:32:57 EET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2012-12-05 00:32:57 EET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2012-12-05 00:36:38 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position" system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.03 sec 2012-12-05 00:37:39 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position_default" system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.15u sec elapsed 0.99 sec 2012-12-05 00:44:23 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position" system usage: CPU 4.46s/0.61u sec elapsed 465.09 sec 2012-12-05 00:44:38 EET LOG: automatic vacuum of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position": index scans: 1 pages: 8 removed, 0 remain tuples: 64 removed, 0 remain system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.02 sec 2012-12-05 00:44:38 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position" system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec 2012-12-05 00:51:40 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position" system usage: CPU 4.34s/0.53u sec elapsed 422.20 sec 2012-12-05 00:52:38 EET LOG: automatic vacuum of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position": index scans: 1 pages: 10 removed, 0 remain tuples: 30 removed, 0 remain system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.02 sec 2012-12-05 00:52:38 EET LOG: automatic analyze of table "fleet.fleet.vehicle_position" system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec During the analyze the IO was ~800-1000 K/s Vlad