sessions table cleanup ?
 

Hey guys,

We are running our own private koji instance. We are running 1.6 on el5.
Lately this query takes 20mins or so to execute :

SELECT host.id,name,arches,task_load,capacity FROM host
JOIN sessions USING (user_id)
WHERE enabled = TRUE AND ready = TRUE
AND expired = FALSE
AND master IS NULL
AND update_time > NOW() - '5 minutes'::interval

It looks like the 'sessions' table is the culprit. Indeed SELECTing
'host' is immediate whereas SELECT count(id) from 'sessions' takes 15
seconds for only 408312 rows... looks like a vacuum problem you would
say. You are right but my question is why do I have so many sessions
rows ? Can 'sessions' be truncated ? I am just wondering if it's a known
issue to not clean the sessions tables or if I need to tune my
autovacuum to work properly :)


Cheers,
Thomas

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sessions table cleanup ?
 

On 04/03/2012 04:35 AM, Thomas Guthmann wrote:

Hey guys,

We are running our own private koji instance. We are running 1.6 on el5.
Lately this query takes 20mins or so to execute :

SELECT host.id,name,arches,task_load,capacity FROM host
JOIN sessions USING (user_id)
WHERE enabled = TRUE AND ready = TRUE
AND expired = FALSE
AND master IS NULL
AND update_time > NOW() - '5 minutes'::interval

It looks like the 'sessions' table is the culprit. Indeed SELECTing
'host' is immediate whereas SELECT count(id) from 'sessions' takes 15
seconds for only 408312 rows... looks like a vacuum problem you would
say. You are right but my question is why do I have so many sessions
rows ? Can 'sessions' be truncated ? I am just wondering if it's a known
issue to not clean the sessions tables or if I need to tune my
autovacuum to work properly :)


I run the following nightly:

DELETE FROM sessions WHERE update_time < now() - '1 day'::interval;

If you are using an old enough postgres version, you may also want to
truncate sessions periodically. This will invalidate all login
credentials, so I would only recommend doing so during a maintenance
outage. This will require you to restart kojira and all kojid instances.


I'd start with just the nightly cleanup at first
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Re,


DELETE FROM sessions WHERE update_time < now() - '1 day'::interval;
Thanks Mike for your quick answer. This trick will do and indeed is
nicer than a rough truncate :) Ta


Thomas
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