Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table

["Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "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?

This is 8.1.9 on Linux x86_64,

# show maintenance_work_mem ;
 maintenance_work_mem
----------------------
 16384