Tom, I am logging these stats now, but i am having a similar issue. both jobs 
in the morning and after noon insert about 400k records (200k each)
In the morning that job takes 450secIn the afternoon only 150; No select, 
simple parsing a file and insert the records
These two tables don't grow as at night a cleanup job removes about the same 
amount of historical data (older about 40 days). 
Its kind of the same behavior and i don't really see where the swapping fits in.
Here are the stats for this 400k inserts in the morning.
vmstat -s 10     18482752  total memory     18381116  used memory      7014556  
active memory     11040672  inactive memory       101636  free memory       
102168  buffer memory     17757988  swap cache      8193140  total swap         
1468  used swap      8191672  free swap      1781577 non-nice user cpu ticks    
       13 nice user cpu ticks        52619 system cpu ticks     40813639 idle 
cpu ticks       297259 IO-wait cpu ticks          241 IRQ cpu ticks         
6253 softirq cpu ticks            0 stolen cpu ticks     26348975 pages paged 
in     46203834 pages paged out            0 pages swapped in          361 
pages swapped out    116011398 interrupts     20586721 CPU context switches   
1261071430 boot time        27428 forks [08:27:07] ~ $ vmstat 10procs 
-----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r  
b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st 1  
1   1468 101976 102260 17750836    0    0    62   108   70   48  4  0 95  1  0 
1  0   1468  98996 102280 17753148    0    0  2090  6692 3066 3742  8  1 75 16  
0 0  1   1468  97376 102276 17755204    0    0  2462  2475 1723 4403  9  1 75 
15  0 0  1   1468 101308 102284 17750644    0    0  2608  3281 1741 4666 10  1 
75 14  0 0  1   1468  96852 102308 17755328    0    0  2567  2376 1707 4658 10  
1 75 14  0 0  1   1468 103104 102308 17748396    0    0  2815  3378 1813 5018 
11  1 75 13  0 0  1   1468  96264 102344 17755588    0    0  3014  2582 1814 
5391 12  2 75 12  0 1  0   1468  92816 102372 17758244    0    0  3141  3358 
1840 5645 12  2 75 12  0 1  0   1468 187184 102408 17664804    0    0  1956  
3802 1622 3920 17  1 75  7  0 0  2   1468 154272 102604 17684708    0    0  
1547 50848 10246  602 12  4 70 15  0 0  2   1468 125416 102692 17716672    0    
0   299 20352 5416  273  3  2 65 31  0 1  0   1468  98716 102908 17739988    0  
  0  1906 46720 9263  415 14  3 73  9  0 1  0   1468 102608 103000 17703556    
0    0  1932 11837 1339  348 22  1 73  4  0 1  0   1468 107096 103388 17333928  
  0    0  1164  1328 1234  300 14  1 74 11  0 0  1   1468 105224 103584 
17336044    0    0  1702  2286 1354  362 17  0 75  8  0 0  1   1468 108516 
103628 17333236    0    0  1236  6901 2389  358 19  1 74  6  0 1  0   1468  
92184 103688 17349856    0    0   975  9852 3408  344 15  1 75  9  0 1  0   
1468 101324 103764 17340572    0    0  1042  8904 3174  334 17  1 75  8  0 2  0 
  1468 102996 103616 17049288    0    0  1290 11402 3701  492 33  2 58  8  0 1  
1   1468  92336 103704 17060584    0    0  1091  8918 3076  336 40  1 50 10  0 
1  1   1468 102392 103824 17044704    0    0  1041  7743 2563  364 38  1 50 11  
0 1  2   1468  95864 103956 17037800    0    0  1432  1398 1519  609 28  0 50 
22  0 1  2   1468  94488 104212 17030460    0    0  1610  2448 1685  826 30  0 
48 22  0 1  2   1468 187308 104376 16940672    0    0  1751  3508 1752  994 29  
1 40 31  0 1  2   1468 159824 104708 16966516    0    0  1837  3309 1818  997 
30  0 43 27  0 1  1   1468 149196 105040 16976736    0    0  1966  2930 1812 
1030 29  0 45 26  0 1  1   1468 417112 105240 17004556    0    0  1962  2730 
1727  915 18  0 61 20  0 0  2   1468 389056 105628 17031620    0    0  1988  
2594 1799  776  5  0 74 20  0
FINSELECT [08:32:42] ~ $ vmstat -s     18482752  total memory     18121980  
used memory      7993020  active memory      9782060  inactive memory       
360772  free memory       105860  buffer memory     17059320  swap cache      
8193140  total swap         1468  used swap      8191672  free swap      
1803616 non-nice user cpu ticks           13 nice user cpu ticks        53801 
system cpu ticks     40905481 idle cpu ticks       317949 IO-wait cpu ticks     
     245 IRQ cpu ticks         6648 softirq cpu ticks            0 stolen cpu 
ticks     26978271 pages paged in     48982990 pages paged out            0 
pages swapped in          361 pages swapped out    116958150 interrupts     
21299728 CPU context switches   1261071430 boot time        27505 
forksFINSELECT [08:32:47] ~ $ vmstat 10procs -----------memory---------- 
---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r  b   swpd   free   buff  
cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st 1  1   1468 354412 105920 
17065284    0    0    63   114   72   49  4  0 95  1  0 0  2   1468 327640 
106260 17091364    0    0  1932  2460 1744  743  5  0 75 20  0 0  2   1468 
318956 106472 17099540    0    0  1519  2248 1661  609  5  0 74 21  0 1  0   
1468 294088 106768 17121952    0    0  2032  2290 1586  752  4  0 74 21  0 1  1 
  1468 278312 107084 17136264    0    0  2548  2706 1711  914  6  0 75 19  0 0  
2   1468 244156 107208 17168232    0    0  2284  3154 1635  858  6  0 74 19  0 
2  0   1468 222268 107420 17185572    0    0  2035  3388 1555  717 12  0 71 17  
0 0  1   1464 229088 107464 17199960    0    0  1279  5878 2048  302 21  0 73  
6  0 1  0   1464 220524 107488 17208804    0    0  1116  3497 1301  270 19  0 
75  6  0 1  0   1464 204912 107520 17224208    0    0  1321  3519 1321  282 20  
0 75  5  0 1  0   1464 182580 107556 17246984    0    0  1446  3726 1371  329 
20  0 75  5  0 1  0   1464 170096 107600 17259620    0    0  1270  3300 1307  
289 20  0 75  5  0 0  1   1464 148800 107636 17280656    0    0  1393  3710 
1351  319 19  0 75  6  0 1  0   1464 136432 107700 17292188    0    0  1384  
3291 1308  291 19  0 75  5  0 1  0   1464 118672 107808 17308308    0    0  
1383  3656 1365  410 21  1 73  6  0 0  1   1464 110880 107840 17317024    0    
0  1534  6340 2207  403 17  1 74  8  0 1  0   1464 106996 107848 17321024    0  
  0  1142  7217 2932  340 15  1 75 10  0 0  1   1464  93096 107876 17335540    
0    0  1268  7923 2944  387 14  1 74 11  0 0  1   1464 109156 107900 17318800  
  0    0  1333  7776 2871  380 15  1 75  9  0 0  1   1464  93360 107928 
17335100    0    0  1300  8944 3393  378 17  1 75  8  0 0  1   1464  96200 
107972 17331752    0    0  1136  8365 3101  369 16  1 74  9  0 1  0   1464 
105692 108020 17321832    0    0  1171  7041 2744  352 14  1 75 11  0 1  0   
1464 106068 108056 17321288    0    0  1176  6564 2765  347 14  0 75 11  0 0  1 
  1464 100424 108100 17326996    0    0  1236  6687 2755  360 14  1 74 10  0 1  
0   1464 104532 108140 17322680    0    0  1194  5106 2230  342 13  0 75 12  0 
1  0   1464  98196 107216 17328388    0    0  1238  6720 2611  352 15  1 75 10  0




> To: ainto...@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl Performance Problems 
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:36:15 -0500
> From: t...@sss.pgh.pa.us
> 
> Alex - <ainto...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > I actually looked at that too, but there is no swapping going on.
> 
> If you were only watching for swapping, that wouldn't catch what I'm
> talking about.  Replacing cached disk buffers with other disk data
> doesn't count as swapping in any system I've used.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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