Interestingly, after shutting down the server with shared_buffer=1500MB in the middle of that UPDATE, I see this:

bash-3.2$ /opt/bin/pg_ctl -D /data/pgsql/ stop
waiting for server to shut down....LOG:  received smart shutdown request
LOG:  autovacuum launcher shutting down
........................................................... failed
pg_ctl: server does not shut down
bash-3.2$ /opt/bin/pg_ctl -D /data/pgsql/ stop
waiting for server to shut down..........................................................LOG: shutting down
LOG:  database system is shut down
 done
server stopped

-- had to do it twice, the box was paging for a minute or two.

Should I do something about the autovacuum e.g. to turn it off completely? I thought it's not on as all of it was still commented out in postgresql.conf as shipped, only tweaked a few numbers as reported before.

Cheers,
Alexy


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