Re: High context switches occurring

[Vivek Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Anjan Dave wrote: 

This is a Dell Quad XEON. Hyperthreading is turned on, and I am planning to turn it off as soon as I get a chance to bring it down.

You should probably also upgrade to Pg 8.0 or newer since it is a known problem with XEON processors and older postgres versions.  Upgrading Pg may solve your problem or it may not.  It is just a fluke with XEON processors...