On 8/21/07, Sachchida Ojha <sojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any data corruption/damage to the database if we forcefully > kill autovacuum using cron job (if it is running longer than a > predefined time frame). Oh, and I'd look at your I/O subsystem. You might want to look at putting $300 hardware RAID cards with battery backed cache and 4 or so disks in a RAID10 in them. It sounds to me like you could use more I/O for your vacuuming. Vacuuming isn't CPU intensive, but it can be I/O intensive. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq