With v10, the upper limit on bgwriter_lru_maxpages was changed from 1000 to INT_MAX / 2, but the postgresql.conf.sample was not updated.
#bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100 # 0-1000 max buffers written/round I don't see any precedence for including INT_MAX-type limits in the sample config file, so maybe something like this: #bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 100 # max buffers written/round, 0 to turn off Cheers, Jeff