[Snip] > > > > shared_buffers = 256 > > Make this higher too. If this is a dedicated machine with 512 MB of ram, > set it to something like 125000. > > You may need to adjust shared memory settings for your operating system. > See the manual for details. > Whoa. Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't each buffer 8192 bytes? So you are suggesting that he set his shared buffers to a gigabyte on a machine with 512 MB of ram? Or was that just a miscalculation? Dave