Brian Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We though there might be locking, but noticed that there were not any >> queries in wait mode indicating that no statements were blocked by >> another statement's lock.
In that case it's not a locking problem, but just a resource-saturation problem. I'm wondering if you are maxing out your disk drives' throughput. Are the slowdowns correlated with checkpoints? (Watch to see if there is a postmaster child process spawned for checkpointing when it happens.) Fooling with checkpoint intervals might help some, though I suspect the only real answer will be 8.0's background-writer feature. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]