"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday November 14 2006 12:56 pm, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> You don't have the vacuum cost delay settings set unreasonably
>> high, do you?

> I'm not sure.  Here's what we're running:

> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = 500      # default vacuum cost delay for 
>                                         # vacuum_cost_delay
> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = 200      # default vacuum cost limit for 
>                                         # vacuum_cost_limit

That's unreasonably high --- you're telling autovac to do a little work
(about ten pages' worth) and then sleep for half a second.  No wonder it
seems to take forever on a big table.  Try autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
around 10 or 20 (msec) or so.

                        regards, tom lane

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