On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:30:17PM -0400, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote: - >. The options I suggested be turned off just for the load process - > ... - > not safe if the other databases are in the same PostgreSQL Cluster - - They are, so I won't --- thanks for the heads up on that too. - - Just for posterity, here is the systems specs (from my hardware guy): - DEQ1 is on centos 5.3 - W/ 1.5Tb striped system volumes using a pair of standard 7600 rpm sata - drives. These are on system 3 gbit/s ports. So that makes total sense. you're flooding your disks/controller doing the massive amount of writing that's involved with the restore. Dave -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin