On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:29:20PM +0900, Galy Lee wrote: > so what is the principle to set them? > - keep dead space lower than some disk limit > - or keep the garbage rate lower than fillfactor > or any other general principle? How do you measure "dead space" and "garbage rate?" I'm a newbe, I don't even know what these terms mean, but if I can measure them, perhaps it will gel, and really if you can't measure the effect of a setting change, what have you got? I would hope any discussion on autovac parms would include some metric evaluation techniques. Thanks.