On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:41:45PM -0300, jody brownell wrote: > BTW, in production with a similar load - autovacuum with default out of the box > settings seems to work quite well.... > > I double checked this earlier today. So what's different between production and the machine with the problem? The issue with autovac is that it will only vacuum one table at a time, so if it's off vacuuming some other table for a long period of time it won't be touching this table, which will be a problem. Now, if that's actually what's happening... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461