Tom,
> Note to all: we ***HAVE TO*** settle on some reasonable default
> vacuum_cost_delay settings before we can ship 8.3. With no cost delay
> and two or three workers active, 8.3's autovac does indeed send
> performance into the tank.
I've been using 20ms for most of my setups. That's aimed at reducing
autovac to almost no impact at all, but taking a long time. Maybe 10ms?
--Josh