On Thursday 30 October 2008, "Oliver Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Another thing to note, we have VACUUM ANALYZE running on an hourly
> interval and the switch from CPU to IO wait appears to always coincide
> with a vacuum.
>
> What might cause this shift?

The extra disk access caused by vacuum? That seems pretty obvious.

Use auto-vacuum. There's no reason to vacuum your entire database every hour 
(doing so reads from disk the entirety of every table and index, and 
generates some write activity).

-- 
Alan

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