Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-19 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 21:25, Christopher Browne wrote: > In 7.3 and 7.4, the "contrib" application, pg_autovacuum can do the > trick, vacuuming anything that reaches thresholds of > inserts/deletes/updates, and do so more or less as often as necessary. Actually pg_autovacuum is not included with

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Webster
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Have you run VACUUM and/or VACUUM FULL and/or ANALYZE recently? a) yes. I have it run analyze every 30 minutes or 1600 record additions. Records are never updated or deleted so I assume I don't need vacuum. b) It does it even at start up when there are fewer t

[GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Webster
I have one process which writes a single float into 300 columns once per second. I then run 4 process, from remote computers, to query a small subset of the latest row. I have even commented out everything in the query programs, all they do is sleep, and the associated postmaster still sucks u

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:45:59PM -0300, Claudio Lapidus wrote: > > Run VACUUM VERBOSE on it; you'll no doubt see that some internal > > tables such as pg_activity, pg_statistic, and such have a lot of dead > > tuples. Establishing a connection leads to _some_ DB activity, and > > probably a dead

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Webster) was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > >>Have you run VACUUM and/or VACUUM FULL and/or ANALYZE recently? >> > a) yes. I have it run analyze every 30 minutes or 1600 record > additions. Records are never updated or deleted so I

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Have you run VACUUM and/or VACUUM FULL and/or ANALYZE recently? On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:44:05PM -0600, Chris Webster wrote: > I have one process which writes a single float into 300 columns once per > second. I then run 4 process, from remote computers, to query a small > subset of the lates