Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have a couple of servers running Postfix with amavisd-maia+SA+clamav
on FreeBSD 6.2 which use a central db server running PgSQL 8.2.4. My
issue is the bayes database causing SA TIMED OUT in the logs and want to
make sure I am getting everything into memory. The disk activity is high
on the db server, this is the average systat status...

The SA SQL-bayes implementation is one prime example of a real life application that can benefit from HOT because it is basically updating a fairly limited set of non-indexes columns at an insane rate. I have seen real live installations that could barly keep up with bloat even on a tight 3min vacuum cycle and the 8.3B4 test instance I have here can take at least 4 times the load than 8.1 could using that kind of workload.


Stefan

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