Re: [GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your answers! > I'm using 8.1 and 8.2 on windows2003 servers, and it's true that i could > probably configure them much better. Note that support for 8.1 on windows is gone, as it is no longer considered supportable due to

Re: [GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-10 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, Thanks for your answers! I'm using 8.1 and 8.2 on windows2003 servers, and it's true that i could probably configure them much better. We've recently moved to brand new dedicated database servers with pg8.3 on debian in 2 projects and it has been much easier to configure these correctly. There

Re: [GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Willy-Bas Loos : > > Whenever i start a big action, like inserting millions of recs or doing a > large update, the autovacuum fires on top of that. > It has some adverse effects on performance when i need it most. More than > once a postgres service crashed on me because of it. > Su

Re: [GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-09 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On Thursday 09 July 2009 19:25:15 Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Whenever i start a big action, like inserting millions of recs or doing a > large update, the autovacuum fires on top of that. You can configure autovacuum to use less resources. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-con

Re: [GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Willy-Bas Loos escribió: > Hi, > > Whenever i start a big action, like inserting millions of recs or doing a > large update, the autovacuum fires on top of that. > It has some adverse effects on performance when i need it most. More than > once a postgres service crashed on me because of it. > Sur

[GENERAL] is autovacuum recommended?

2009-07-09 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, Whenever i start a big action, like inserting millions of recs or doing a large update, the autovacuum fires on top of that. It has some adverse effects on performance when i need it most. More than once a postgres service crashed on me because of it. Sure, it had too little memory, but it wou