Tom Lane 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?
>
> Also, I was able to reproduce the variability in timing on HPUX and
> Darwin as well as Linux, so we can't put all the blame on ext3.
> (I didn't drill down to the strace level on the other two machines,
> though, so it's possible that there is a different mechanism at work
> there.)
Any news since this message ? Should I file a bug report ?
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
