Re: [PERFORM] Slow vacuum performance

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Hatcher
Thanks! Patrick Hatcher Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/04 03:11 AM To Patrick Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: [PERFORM] Slow vacuum performance On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 19:51 -0700, Patrick H

Re: [PERFORM] Slow vacuum performance

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 19:51 -0700, Patrick Hatcher wrote: > > Thanks! > > My effective_cache_size = 625000 > > I thought that having the shared_buffers above 2k or 3k didn't gain > any performance and may in fact degrade it? Hi Patrick, Quoting from: http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBi

Re: [PERFORM] Slow vacuum performance

2004-06-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:09 -0700, Patrick Hatcher wrote: > > > > Pg: 7.4.2 > RedHat 7.3 > Ram: 8gig > > I have 6 million row table that I vacuum full analyze each night. The time > seems to be streching out further and further as I add more rows. I read > the archives and Josh's annotated p

Re: [PERFORM] Slow vacuum performance

2004-06-17 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Patrick Hatcher wrote: > I have 6 million row table that I vacuum full analyze each night. The time > seems to be streching out further and further as I add more rows. I read You could try to run normal (non full) vacuum every hour or so. If you do normal vacuum often enou

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread pginfo
scott.marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > scott.marlowe wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am running pg 7.4.1 on linux box. > > > > I have a midle size DB with many updates and after it I try to run > > > > v

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > Hi, > > scott.marlowe wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running pg 7.4.1 on linux box. > > > I have a midle size DB with many updates and after it I try to run > > > vacuum full analyze. > > > > Is there a reason t

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread pginfo
Hi, scott.marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am running pg 7.4.1 on linux box. > > I have a midle size DB with many updates and after it I try to run > > vacuum full analyze. > > Is there a reason to not use just regular vacuum / analyze (i.e. NOT > full)? >

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, pginfo wrote: > Hi, > > I am running pg 7.4.1 on linux box. > I have a midle size DB with many updates and after it I try to run > vacuum full analyze. Is there a reason to not use just regular vacuum / analyze (i.e. NOT full)? > It takes about 2 h. Full vacuums, by the

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread pginfo
Hi Bill, I am vacuuming every 24 h. I have a cron script about i. But if I make massive update (for example it affects 1 M rows) and I start vacuum, it take this 2 h. Also I will note, that this massive update is running in one transaction ( I can not update 100K and start vacuum after it). regard

Re: [PERFORM] slow vacuum performance

2004-03-24 Thread Bill Moran
pginfo wrote: Hi, I am running pg 7.4.1 on linux box. I have a midle size DB with many updates and after it I try to run vacuum full analyze. It takes about 2 h. If I try to dump and reload the DB it take 20 min. How can I improve the vacuum full analyze time? How often are you vacuuming? If you'