Henrik <henke@xxxxxx> writes: > I'm already started to redesign the database to avoid the hugh number > of rows in this big table but I'm still curious why autovacuum hogs > over 200MB when it is not running? On what do you base that assertion? > Is it the shared_buffers? Well, 128M in shared buffers plus 64M maintenance_work_mem would go a long way towards explaining a 200M process address space, but it's hardly "hogging" the shared buffers. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/