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.