On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Richard Yen <rich...@iparadigms.com> writes:
>> My concern is that--as in the original post--there were moments where 129 
>> WAL files were generated in one minute.  Is it plausible that this 
>> autovacuum could be responsible for this?
> 
> That's not a particularly surprising WAL creation rate for a busy
> database.  I wouldn't expect autovacuum to cause it by itself, but
> that's true only because autovacuum processing is typically throttled
> by autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay.  Perhaps you had that set to zero?
> 

Ah, yes, autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = 0 in my config.  That explains 
it--guess I'm playing with knives if I set things that way...

--Richard


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