On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 13:02 -0200, Rafael Domiciano wrote: > Hi there. > > > I increased the wal_buffers and no change made. > I'm beggining to think that my problem is not related to "checkpoint & > cia" as I said early. > I have decreased the checkpoint_timeout to 3 min and the slow down > continuin' ocorring after each 5 min. > > > In this "slowdown" the postgres does nothing, it's simply stop doing > the operations. The softwares still waiting for the response. > This is a dedicated server, the only program another postgres that > runs is Slony-I This sounds like checkpoint issues to me. Try adjusting the bgwriter settings as suggested. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.