Tom Lane mentioned : => Turn off => memory overallocation in your kernel to get more stable behavior when => pushing the limits of available memory.
I think this will already help a lot. Thanks!! => If your concern is with a single nightly process, then that quad Xeon is => doing squat for you, because only one of the processors will be working. => See if you can divide up the processing into several jobs that can run => in parallel. (Of course, if the real problem is that you are disk I/O => bound, nothing will help except better disk hardware. Way too many => people think they should buy a super-fast CPU and attach it to => consumer-grade IDE disks. For database work you're usually better off => spending your money on good disks...) Got 3 10000 rpm SCSI raid5 on here. I doubt I will get much better than that without losing both arms and legs... I think I'll try and even out the disk IO a bit and get 4 processes running in parallel. At least I can move forward again. Thanks again! Kind Regards Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly