Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0128A632349 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:39:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24006-01 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:39:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from glacier.frostconsultingllc.com (glacier.frostconsultingllc.com [69.36.227.170]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377AF6322B6 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:39:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dsl081-245-111.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.245.111] helo=[192.168.1.118]) by glacier.frostconsultingllc.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2oZq-0002RS-Sr for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:39:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4BC892C6.1030304@agliodbs.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:39:34 -0700 From: Josh Berkus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100217 Shredder/3.0.3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Autovaccum with cost_delay does not complete on one solaris 5.10 machine References: <4BC76C9F.1020200@agliodbs.com> <20100415200056.GJ7259@alvh.no-ip.org> <16088.1271362441@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20100415202405.GL7259@alvh.no-ip.org> <4BC79072.10901@agliodbs.com> <26178.1271371697@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4BC79899.4030107@agliodbs.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC79899.4030107@agliodbs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.897 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.896, BAYES_40=-0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/214 X-Sequence-Number: 38464 Tom, Neither database has and per-table autovacuum settings. However, since this is a production database, I had to try something, and set vacuum_cost_limit up to 1000. The issue with vacuuming one page at a time went away, or at least I have not seen it repeat in the last 16 hours. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com