This is a sampling of the debug output.

[2005-12-13 09:43:47 IST] DEBUG: 33 All DBs checked in: 278300 usec, will sleep for 300 secs. [2005-12-13 09:48:47 IST] DEBUG: 34 All DBs checked in: 171112 usec, will sleep for 300 secs.
[2005-12-13 09:53:47 IST] DEBUG:   updating the database list

Does that mean that it is vacuuming the databases?
One major reason that I think it is not, is that after a while the system starts getting sluggish and when I run vacuum analyze then it picks up again.

That leads me to believe that it is not running vacuum analyze.

Thank You
Sim

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:11:22PM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote:
select version()
"PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)"

I am using PG_Autovacuum with postgresql 8.01 and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I've seen it work on other machines where a log item is entered each time a table is touched.

I tried starting it with pg_autovacumm -d 1 -U postgres
(I purposely didn't daemonize it because I wanted to see what it was doing) and it showed that it was adding all the tables, but then it just sat there for 2 hours without doing anything else.

The stats_collector and stats_row_level are both set to true.


Neither the postgresql.log file nor the pg_autovacuum.log file have anything about it in them.

Try -d 2; it should give enough info to tell if it's at least checking
tables.

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