Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-29 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Tom, After almost 20 hours running vacuum I see postmaster grew a little bit: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 20458 postgres 15 0 2136m 553m 204m D 33.2 54.7 198:18.36 postmaster It's strange that I see no output since starting vacuumdb -v -z -f wsdb > vac

Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-28 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Oleg Bartunov writes: Memory growth stoped at 1.8Gb PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 20458 postgres 15 0 1902m 503m 204m D 5.9 49.7 13:59.61 postmaster Index-related memory leak maybe? What are the indexes on this tab

Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov writes: > Memory growth stoped at 1.8Gb >PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 20458 postgres 15 0 1902m 503m 204m D 5.9 49.7 13:59.61 postmaster Index-related memory leak maybe? What are the indexes on this table, exactly?

Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-28 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Oleg Bartunov writes: Day ago we run 'vacuum verbose analyze;' and now we're observing strange output (see below). We see many repeated passes through the table 'usno' and all indices (2). Nothing strange about it: that

Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Oleg Bartunov writes: Day ago we run 'vacuum verbose analyze;' and now we're observing strange output (see below). We see many repeated passes through the table 'usno' and all indices (2). Nothing strange about it: that's how vacuum deals with large tables. You

Re: [HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-27 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov writes: > Day ago we run 'vacuum verbose analyze;' and now we're observing > strange output (see below). We see many repeated passes through the > table 'usno' and all indices (2). Nothing strange about it: that's how vacuum deals with large tables. You can reduce the number of pass

[HACKERS] strange 'vacuum verbose analyze' behaviour

2005-01-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Hi there, we have a table with 500mln rows: wsdb=# \d usno Table "public.usno" Column | Type | Modifiers ++--- ra | real | dec| real | bmag | real | rmag | real | ipix | bigint | Indexes: "ipix_ind" btree (ipix) "radec_idx1" btree