Thanks for the advice, It's one under consideration at the moment. What are your thoughts on increasing RAM and shared_buffers? On 6 Sep 2011, at 20:21, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On September 6, 2011 12:11:10 PM Richard Shaw wrote: >> 24 :) >> >> 4 x Intel Xeon-NehalemEX E7540-HexCore [2GHz] >> > > Nice box. > > Still I/O-bound, though. SSDs would help a lot, I would think. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance