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From: Muhammad Ikram <[email protected]>
To: Shenavai, Manuel <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 18:42:11 +0500
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Hi Shenvail,

Based on what I could understand,

Lower value will cause more frequent run of Autovacuum. Will have
less delay between processing data chunks but will put more load on the I/O
system. Autovacuum tasks will complete faster. Cleanup of dead tuples and
blots will be quicker thus increasing performance in the cases where tables
are heavily updated/deleted.

Higher values will result in longer delays between processing data chunks
thus slowing down the completion of autovacuum tasks. Autovacuum will have
less I/O load for its tasks. Database performance will be degraded if
operations are more update/delete intensive. Dead tuples and bloat will
take longer to be cleaned up.
It can be beneficial  for performance of other database operations,
especially if your system is I/O-bound. Can also be helpful when system
resources are less

Regards,
Muhammad Ikram
Bitnine Global.


On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 4:38 PM Shenavai, Manuel <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> We are doing some tests with different autovacuum settings.
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> Looking at autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-autovacuum.html#GUC-AUTOVACUUM-VACUUM-COST-DE...
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> Can someone help to understand what a high or low value of this setting
> really means? Would it be OK to set this to 0? If not, why not?
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> Thanks in advance &
> Best regards,
>
> Manuel
>


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Muhammad Ikram


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