"Jeffrey Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I increased it to 1GB, restarted the vacuum, and system performance > seems the same. The root of the problem, that an entire CPU is in the > iowait state and the storage device is doing random i/o, is unchanged:
Yeah, but you just reduced the number of index scans that will be needed by a factor of 1GB/16MB. Hang in there ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance