Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B91633C84 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 10:58:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67491-07 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:58:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1A8633C78 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 10:58:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o43DwVZb014479; Mon, 3 May 2010 09:58:32 -0400 (EDT) To: "Benjamin Krajmalnik" cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Autovacuum stopped running In-reply-to: References: <4BDBF3C90200002500031147@gw.wicourts.gov> <11024.1272755375@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "Benjamin Krajmalnik" message dated "Sun, 02 May 2010 21:17:04 -0600" Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 09:58:31 -0400 Message-ID: <14478.1272895111@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.869 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.041, BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/25 X-Sequence-Number: 34498 "Benjamin Krajmalnik" writes: > This happened again on another server with these same settings. > I did not see any long running transaction, and the autovacuum launch > process was running. Hmm ... could you strace the launcher for a couple of minutes to see whether it's doing anything? Also, I've forgotten exactly which PG version you're running? regards, tom lane