"Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker(at)gmail(dot)com> writes: > This autovacuum has been hammering my server with purely random i/o > for half a week. The table is only 20GB and the i/o subsystem is good > for 250MB/s sequential and a solid 5kiops. When should I expect it to > end (if ever)? What have you got maintenance_work_mem set to? Which PG version exactly? regards, tom lane