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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
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Subject: Re: how to plan for vacuum?
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> I'll generally start with a cost delay of 20ms and adjust based on IO
> utilization.

I've been considering set a default autovacuum cost delay to 10ms; does
this sound reasonable?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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