Christopher Petrilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What seems to happen is it slams into a "wall" of some sort, the
> system goes into disk write frenzy (wait=90% CPU), and eventually
> recovers and starts running for a while at a more normal speed.

Checkpoint maybe?  If so, tweaking the bgwriter parameters might
improve matters.

                        regards, tom lane

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