>>> Looking at audit logs, I see that my Postgresql server generates a new thread
>>> precisely every 30 seconds, in two series (so 4 threads every minute). This
>>> is an otherwise idle server.
>
>>> Does anyone know what these threads are for? Just curious.
>
>Autovacuum, likely. The rate would depend on your autovacuum_naptime
>and how many active databases you have.
Yep, that was it, thanks.
I had the default autovacuum_naptime of 1 minute, and had two Postgresql
clusters runing. I turned off autovacuum and these threads disappeared.
Still not sure how it comes to twice a minute per cluster. There are 5
databases, and as far as I know, a client connection to one of them, not
doing anything, while this was happening.
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Bryan Henderson San Jose, California