On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Brendan Duddridge wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Hmm... ktrace -p PID -c returns immediately without doing anything > unless I've previously done a ktrace -p PID. > > According to the man page for ktrace's -c flag: > -c Clear the trace points associated with the specified file > or processes. On other systems, strace/truss with -c produces a list of sys calls with the number of times they've been called in the elapsed period. To answer your other question, temporarily disabling fsync during the recovery should speed it up. For future reference, processing thousands of WAL files for recovery is not ideal. You should be doing a base backup much more often. Gavin