On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:58:47AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Mark, > > > No manual vacuum commands before. The decline in performance has been > > pretty consistent in all my previous tests and people have told me on > > many occasions that the decline in performance was probably because I > > was never using vacuum... > > Hmmm ... what autovacuum params are you using? From the look of the graphs, > VACUUM is running every 6 minutes or so, and having a huge impact on > performance when it does run. Give me a bit of time to crunch the database > log, and we'll see which table vacuums were taking the most time. > > Can you re-run this test with a fairly generous vacuum_delay setting? Given > that the performance drops seem to correspond to wait times, I think this > could mean a big difference. >
All default parameters. Matthew also recommended using the vacuum_delay setting so I was about to try that. Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])