* henk de wit: > On this table we're inserting records with a relatively low > frequency of +- 6~10 per second. We're using PG 8.3.1 on a machine > with two dual core 2.4Ghz XEON CPUs, 16 GB of memory and Debian > Linux. The machine is completely devoted to PG, nothing else runs on > the box. Have you disabled the OOM killer? -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99