>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 7:18 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow, autovac is doing something that makes the filesystem go nuts > every so often, and take an astonishingly long time to create an empty > file. But autovac itself doesn't create or delete any files, so what's > up here? Have you ruled out checkpoints as the culprit? -Kevin
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