>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 7:18 PM, in message <25418.1184631498@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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
