On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:35:45AM +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote: > > > vacuum should be a process with the least amount of voodoo. > > If we can just have vacuum_delay and vacuum_threshold, where > > threshold allows an arbitrary setting of how much bandwidth > > we will allot to the process, then that is a beyond wonderful thing. > > > > It is easy to determine how much IO you have, and what you can spare. > > The tricky part is what metric to use. Imho "IO per second" would be > good. > In a typical DB scenario that is the IO bottleneck, not the Mb/s.
Well, right now they're one in the same... but yeah, IO/sec probably does make more sense. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly