> None of this seems material, however. It's pretty clear that > the problem was exhaustion of the Windows page pool. Our > Windows experts have reconfigured the machine (which had been > tuned for Sybase ASE). Their changes have boosted the page > pool from 20,000 entries to 180,000 entries. We're > continuing to test to ensure that the problem is not showing > up with this configuration; but, so far, it looks good. Nope, with these numbers it doesn't. I was looking for a reason as to why it would exhaust the pool - such as a huge number of connections. Which doesn't appear to be so :-( Another thing that will affect this is if you have a lot of network sockets open. Anything like that? BTW; do you get any eventid 2020 in your eventlog? > If we don't want to tell Windows users to make highly > technical changes to the Windows registry in order to use > PostgreSQL, it does seem wise to use retries, as has already > been discussed on this thread. Yeah, I think it's at least worth a try at that. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings