Re: My own performance/tuning q&a

>>>>> "AL" == Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> writes:

AL> Well I had the vacuums running every 15 minutes for a while.. via a
AL> simple cron script I wrote just to make sure no more than one vacuum
AL> ran at once, and to 'nice' the job.. but performance on the db does

"nice"-ing the client does nothing for the backend server that does
the actual work.  You need to track down the PID of the backend server
running the vacuum and renice *it* to get any effect.

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