From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: autovacuum question
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:04:16 -0400
Message-ID: <20070330150416.GL4215@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDBC231C-B790-4F75-A798-764ECA1E123E@indiana.edu>
References: <EDBC231C-B790-4F75-A798-764ECA1E123E@indiana.edu>
Carol Walter wrote:
> I ran the command "show autovacuum" and postgres responds with "ON."
> My colleague says that I should be able to see it running if I run ps
> -aef. He said that he doesn't trust postgres reporting on itself.
I wouldn't trust your colleague then ...
> When I run the Unix ps command as above I don't see autovacuum. Does
> anyone know if it's running or not? This is on a box running Solaris.
It is running. It will only appear on the ps output when it's actually
processing a database; after it's done, it'll go away. Check the logs;
if autovacuum is getting stuck on something (for example failing to
start for some databases), then an error will be logged.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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