Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-24 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
ten should I run autovacuum? > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:48 AM > > To: Peter Eisentraut > > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Benjamin Krajmalnik > > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained

Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
t: Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:48 AM > To: Peter Eisentraut > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Benjamin Krajmalnik > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > >> What can be cau

Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: >> What can be causing this growth? Not vacuuming often enough? > The is exactly the reason. >> I hav >> pg_autovacuum running every 60 seconds. These tables have 10-15 >> insert/update statements per second. > You shoul

Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Benjamin Krajmalnik"), an earthling, wrote: > Any assistance or guidance will be deeply appreciated. I am pulling > hairs on this one. It needs to be vacuumed a lot more aggressively. If you're using pg_autovacuum, the defaults seem to be

Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Christian Kratzer
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: The actual number of physical rows in this table is 3404. Row width is 361. Table size = 639 MB. What can be causing this growth? Not vacuuming often enough? I hav pg_autovacuum running every 60 seconds. These tables have 10-15 insert/upda

Re: [ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > What can be causing this growth? Not vacuuming often enough? The is exactly the reason. > I hav > pg_autovacuum running every 60 seconds. These tables have 10-15 > insert/update statements per second. You should probably run VACUUM FULL to get the table back to a

[ADMIN] Unexplained growth of tables

2006-07-23 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
This is subsequent to the previous issue which I am expperiencing. In my monitoring application, I have a few tables which contain few rows but are constantly pounded with updates. These tables are growing at very high rates. For example, a table with less than 4K rows, which when reloaded was ab