Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BFE9FB9C9 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:06:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47634-07 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:06:41 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC659FB73C for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:06:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so2168052wxd for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:06:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E5153K0ThAKO2YINskJuBHB0CJcigp16aWCGr2BWgf3il/ys2aQbAPbzH0wIqn+FeSTk+ESYjb9IxGz9Z1vtnCEH475oN5UlkDF1KrJZkyN6MfUrIGB8xukhg8DZardmXBvYiX/quFFjFZGq4uK59acfnRI5jVUxQOV9arwI09A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JuCApDXvT6Jtlnt9/AstlAbuFolAtd/5G5wbuMPTBQ5C3SHWmpMYCQK+Rrem9T+14bpQ3RT7XlKBH18oki80ahoINkZHnOvszMhXMXBlFY4hEQhvYIgeHlgz1kOf5DjMmtQUcIoHiw5rtOsa8DHJ1y1+kkBT3GNIHBS3QQEjrE4= Received: by 10.90.49.1 with SMTP id w1mr6221843agw.1173809200625; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.113.6 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:06:40 +1300 From: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" To: Sumeet , PostgreSQL Subject: Re: postgres configuration In-Reply-To: <7539aebb0703131014y2512853fw9ced1bd3bb5f5e77@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7539aebb0703131014y2512853fw9ced1bd3bb5f5e77@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200703/176 X-Sequence-Number: 27814 On 3/14/07, Sumeet wrote: > Hi All, Hi, > Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this question. General woould have been better :) > My Vacuum's are running very very slow and expecially when vacuuming indexes > in large tables of size in 5-10 gigabytes, > can some one help me determine the parameters for postgres.conf which will > help me vacuum fast. I'm running postgres on a server with 32 gigs of ram > and 8 processors. And the disk subsystem is .... ? > Thanks, > Sumeet. Cheers, Andrej