[PERFORM] Problems with high traffic

[Ben Bostow]

I'm still relatively new to Postgres. I usually just do SQL programming 
but have found my self having to administer the DB now.  I have I have 
a problem on my website that when there is high amounts of traffic 
coming from one computer to my web server. I suspect it is because of a 
virus. But what when I notice this, my processor drops to 0.0% idle 
with postmaster being my highest CPU user. Under normal circumstances 
the processor runs >90% idle or <10% used. I have tried tuning postgres 
but it doesn't seem to make a difference, unless I am doing something 
wrong. If I would like to find a solution other than rewriting all of 
my SQL statements and creating them to take the least amount of time to 
process. 

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