Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 1:51:31 PM you wrote:

[rearranged for quoting]

> background writer stats
>  checkpoints_timed | checkpoints_req | buffers_checkpoint | buffers_clean |
> maxwritten_clean | buffers_backend | buffers_alloc
> -------------------+-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------+-----------------+---------------
>                  3 |               0 |              99754 |             0
> |                0 |          115307 |        246173
> (1 row)

buffers_clean = 0 ?!

> But I don't understand how postgres is unable to fetch a free buffer.
> Does any body have an idea?

Somehow looks like the bgwriter is completely disabled. How are the 
relevant settings in your postgresql.conf?


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