On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:13:30AM -0500, mcelroy, tim wrote: > charts showing system and in this case DB performance. I'm basically just > using the out-of-the-box defaults in my postgresql.conf file and that seems Ugh... the default config won't get you far. Take a look here: http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html Or, I've been planning on posting a website with some better "canned" postgresql.conf config files for different configurations; if you send me specs on the machine you're running on I'll come up with something that's at least more reasonable. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461