Pavel Stehule wrote: > 2010/11/21 Humair Mohammed : >> shared_buffers = 2 > shared_buffers = 2 ??? Yeah, if that's not a typo, that's a very serious misconfiguration. With 8 GB of RAM in the machine, this should probably be set to somewhere between 200 MB and 2 GB, depending on your workload and what else is running on the machine. Please read through this page and make use of the information: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance