Re: Vacuum rate limit in KBps

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-08T18:02:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> What we have now just isn't cutting it for 99% of our users, and we need
> to address that if we are going to ever make any real headway here.
>
> Why can't vacuum handle things automatically like checkpoint smoothing?
> Why can't it detect when it is falling behind and speed up?  Why can't
> it see as busy background writer and slow down?   Unless we answer
> these questions, we are not solving the problem for 99% of our users.

+1.

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