>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 8:58 AM, in message <5e66c6e90612110658r3c0918f6v4fd3682363db5c15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Axel Waggershauser" <awagger@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm out of ideas here, maybe someone could try to reproduce this > behavior or could point me to the thread containing relevant > information No guarantees that this is the problem, but I have seen similar issues in other software because of delays introduced in the TCP stack by the Nagle algorithm. Turning on TCP_NODELAY has solved such problems. I don't know if PostgreSQL is vulnerable to this, or how it would be fixed in a PostgreSQL environment, but it might give you another avenue to search. -Kevin