From: Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:32:05 -0700
Message-ID: <fd145f7d0804181032w5dd56caj608866297120984a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3630.1208538238@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<3630.1208538238@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker@gmail.com> writes:
> > This autovacuum has been hammering my server with purely random i/o
> > for half a week. The table is only 20GB and the i/o subsystem is good
> > for 250MB/s sequential and a solid 5kiops. When should I expect it to
> > end (if ever)?
>
> What have you got maintenance_work_mem set to? Which PG version
> exactly?
This is 8.1.9 on Linux x86_64,
# show maintenance_work_mem ;
maintenance_work_mem
----------------------
16384
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