</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The accumulated cost that will cause the vacuuming process to sleep.
- The default value is 200.
+ This is the accumulated cost that will cause the vacuuming process to sleep
+ for <varname>vacuum_cost_delay</varname>. The default is 200.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varname>bgwriter_delay</varname>.
If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds.
The default value is 200
- milliseconds (<literal>200ms</literal>). Note that on many systems, the
+ milliseconds (<literal>200ms</literal>). Note that on some systems, the
effective resolution of sleep delays is 10 milliseconds; setting
<varname>bgwriter_delay</varname> to a value that is not a multiple of 10
might have the same results as setting it to the next higher multiple
flushed to disk.
If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds.
The default value is 200 milliseconds (<literal>200ms</literal>). Note that
- on many systems, the effective resolution of sleep delays is 10
+ on some systems, the effective resolution of sleep delays is 10
milliseconds; setting <varname>wal_writer_delay</varname> to a value that is
not a multiple of 10 might have the same results as setting it to the
next higher multiple of 10. This parameter can only be set in the