Re: Problem with 8.4 stats collector high load

Jakub Ouhrabka wrote:
> > Maybe you should decrease naptime a bit.
> 
> That did the trick, thanks!
> 
> > Yes.  There were some changes that needed to be done to autovacuum so
> > that it didn't read the stats file too often, but I don't recall if I
> > got around to it.
> 
> I looked at the strace output and there are *writes* to the file not
> reads. Why? Is it a consequence of this optimization?
> 
> Release notes 8.4:
> 
> Reduce I/O load of writing the statistics collection file by writing
> the file only when requested (Martin Pihlak)
> 
> Was autovacuum requesting to write this 20MB file 650x per minute?

Yes, exactly.

Ideally, autovacuum would only request a new copy of the file if the one
it got was considerably out of date.  Obviously a tenth of a second is
not old enough.

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