Re: Need Some Suggestions

Lane Van Ingen wrote:
> I have an application that is prone to sudden, unscheduled high bursts of
> activity, and
> I am finding that the application design permits me to detect the activity
> bursts within
> an existing function. The bursts only affect 3 tables, but degradation
> becomes apparent
> after 2,000 updates, and significant after 8,000 updates.

Hmm - assuming your free-space settings are large enough, it might be 
adequate to just run a vacuum on the 3 tables every 5 minutes or so. It 
sounds like these are quite small tables with a lot of activity, so if 
there's not much for vacuum to do it won't place too much load on your 
system.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd