Ryan Mahoney <ryan@paymentalliance.net> writes:
> When interactively calculating the ideal value for max_fsm_pages by
> summarizing the output of VACUUM VERBOSE, which statistic from vacuum am
> I concerned with?
7.4 will tell you exactly how many FSM slots you need:
foo=# vacuum verbose;
...
INFO: free space map: 246 relations, 464 pages stored; 4160 total pages needed
DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 kB shared memory.
VACUUM
In this example, the minimum FSM settings to not discard any data would
be max_fsm_relations = 246, max_fsm_pages = 4160. Note that you need to
have vacuumed all databases fairly recently for the totals to be really
trustworthy.
In previous versions you're kind of on your own :-(
regards, tom lane