Hello I have pg_autovacuum running with the arguments: pg_autovacuum -D -s 120 -v 10000 the database is postgresql 8.0.0 Sometimes load average on server raises to 20 and it is almost impossible to login via SSH When I'm logging in finally, I see there is cpu usage: 6% and iowait 95% ps ax | grep post gives me postgres: postgres db [local] VACUUM Is there some solution to avoid such cases? -- Eugene N Dzhurinsky