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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org