Kevin, please, could you post other settings from your postgresql.conf? interested in: bgwriter_delay shared_buffers checkpoint_segments checkpoint_timeout wal_buffers On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:43:45 -0600 "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We were seeing clusters of query timeouts with our web site, which were > corrected by adjusting the configuration of the background writer. I'm > posting just to provide information which others might find useful -- I > don't have any problem I'm trying to solve in this regard. > -- Evgeny Gridasov Software Engineer I-Free, Russia