Re: Performance features the 4th

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-07T19:33:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>> However, I have not seen much evidence yet that the vacuum delay alone 
>> does that much.
> 
> Gaetano and a couple of other people did experiments that seemed to show
> it was useful.  I think we'd want to change the shape of the knob per
> later suggestions (sleep 10 ms every N blocks, instead of N ms every
> block) but it did seem that there was useful bang for little buck there.

I thought it was "sleep N ms every M blocks".

Have we seen any numbers? Anything at all? Something that gives us a 
clue by what factor one has to multiply the total time a "VACUUM 
ANALYZE" takes, to get what effect in return?


Jan

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