Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On a 8 processor system, my stats collector is always at 100% CPU. > 8.3.5 on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 Hmm. How many tables in the installation? Or perhaps more to the point, how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat? It might be that it's just spending too much time dumping out that file. There's a fix for that planned for 8.4 ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance