System Administrators can use the housekeeper free write percent configuration parameter to control the side effects of the housekeeper task. This parameter specifies the maximum percentage by which the housekeeper task can increase database writes. Valid values range from 0 to 100.
By default, the housekeeper free write percent parameter is set to 1. This allows the housekeeper task to continue to wash buffers as long as the database writes do not increase by more than 1 percent. The work done by the housekeeper task at the default parameter setting results in improved performance and recovery speed on most systems. However, setting housekeeper free write percent too high can degrade performance. If you want to increase the value, increase by only 1 or 2 percent each time.
A dbcc tune option, deviochar, controls the size of batches that the housekeeper can write to disk at one time.
