[PERFORM] autofreeze/vacuuming - avoiding the random performance hit

2015-07-28 Thread Graeme B. Bell
Some of you may have had annoying problems in the past with autofreeze or autovacuum running at unexpected moments and dropping the performance of your server randomly. On our SSD-RAID10 based system we found a 20GB table finished it's vacuum freeze in about 100 seconds. There were no

Re: [PERFORM] autofreeze/vacuuming - avoiding the random performance hit

2015-07-28 Thread Graeme B. Bell
Entire database. People have talked about using SSDs for data/indices and spinning disks for WAL. However I find having everything on the same disks is good for 3 reasons. 1. The SSD is simply vastly faster than the disks. That means if huge amount of WAL is being written out (e.g. tons of

Re: [PERFORM] autofreeze/vacuuming - avoiding the random performance hit

2015-07-28 Thread Wei Shan
Did you put your entire database on SSD or just the WAL/indexes? On 28 July 2015 at 23:39, Graeme B. Bell graeme.b...@nibio.no wrote: Some of you may have had annoying problems in the past with autofreeze or autovacuum running at unexpected moments and dropping the performance of your server