Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread Jeff Janes
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, AJ Weber wrote: > > > Is there a skinny set of instructions on loading pg_stat_statements? Or > should I just log them and review them from there? > Make sure you have installed contrib. (How you do that depends on how you installed PostgreSQL in the first place.

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
AJ Weber escribió: > On 1/23/2013 2:13 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > >Scheduling a manual vacuum should be fine (but keep in mind that > >vacuum has very different default cost_delay settings than autovacuum > >does. If the server is completely idle that shouldn't matter, but if > >it is only mostly i

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread AJ Weber
On 1/23/2013 2:13 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, AJ Weber wrote: I have a server that is IO-bound right now (it's 4 cores, and top indicates the use rarely hits 25%, but the Wait spikes above 25-40% regularly). How long do the spikes last? From what I can gather, a f

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Grittner
AJ Weber wrote: > Is it possible that some spikes in IO could be attributable to > the autovacuum process? Is there a way to check this theory? Taking a look at the ps aux listing, pg_stat_activity, and pg_locks should help establish a cause, or at least rule out a number of possibilities. There

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread Jeff Janes
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, AJ Weber wrote: > I have a server that is IO-bound right now (it's 4 cores, and top indicates > the use rarely hits 25%, but the Wait spikes above 25-40% regularly). How long do the spikes last? > The > server is running postgresql 9.0 and tomcat 6. As I have me

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread Evgeniy Shishkin
On 23.01.2013, at 20:53, AJ Weber wrote: > I have a server that is IO-bound right now (it's 4 cores, and top indicates > the use rarely hits 25%, but the Wait spikes above 25-40% regularly). The > server is running postgresql 9.0 and tomcat 6. As I have mentioned in a > previous thread,

[PERFORM] autovacuum fringe case?

2013-01-23 Thread AJ Weber
I have a server that is IO-bound right now (it's 4 cores, and top indicates the use rarely hits 25%, but the Wait spikes above 25-40% regularly). The server is running postgresql 9.0 and tomcat 6. As I have mentioned in a previous thread, I can't alter the hardware to add disks unfortunately,