From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index bloat, reindex weekly, suggestions etc?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:30:07 -0500
Message-ID: <48F8773F.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a547c840810170905m7323dbd8x90de7dd004abc7d4@mail.gmail.com>
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>>> "Tory M Blue" <tmblue@gmail.com> wrote:
> tell me if i should plan upgrades to 8.3.4..
It's a good idea. It should be painless -- drop in and restart.
> After Reindex
> My Indexes
> 1.5G /data/clsindex
>
> After 2 weeks
> My indexes
> 6.8G /data/clsindex
>
> This is 2 weeks. and throughout those 2 weeks I can see performance
> degrading. In fact I just bumped the memory footprint of my server
to
> 32gigs from 8gigs
Make sure that effective_cache_size reflects this.
> This is a transactional DB with over 800K updates happening each
day.
> tons of updates and deletes. autovac is on and I do a analyze each
> night after the dump
Make sure that you run as VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE and look at the last
few lines; you might need to increase your free space manager
allocations.
-Kevin
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