Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:13:30PM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote: >> No idea on the frequent autovacuuming. Do you do a lot of deletes? > In those messages "processing" just means it woke up to see if there > was anything to do. It probably didn't do anything. Waking up every > minute is not that big a deal... And more to the point, that *is* the default cycle interval, so the behavior is expected. You can change autovacuum_naptime or whatever it's called if you want something different. regards, tom lane