Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> ... vacuum could throttle
> its own disk accesses by, say, reading 64k at a time then sleeping for
> a fraction of a second.
> ...
> Personally I think i/o priorities give much better leverage.
Pie in the sky is great too ;-). But there is no such thing as i/o
priorities, at least not in any portable sense.
OTOH I was just musing to myself earlier today that putting a tunable
delay into VACUUM's per-page loop might make it more friendly to
competing processes. I dunno if it'd work or just be a waste of time,
but it does seem worth experimenting with.
Want to try it out and report back?
regards, tom lane