Re: Autovacuum is running forever

["Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 8/21/07, Sachchida Ojha <sojha(at)secure-elements(dot)com> 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.