On 3/16/06, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Very strange. Sure. I can't find any logical explanation for that but it is the behaviour we have for more than a year now (the site was migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL on january 2005). We check iostat, vmstat and so on without any hint on why we have this behaviour. > The client has just bought an Opteron to run on, I'm afraid. I might try > 8.1 on the Xeon but it'll just be to see what happens and that won't be > for a while. I don't think it will be an option for us so I will have more information next week.