We are not doing anything to postgres that would cause the rise and drop. Data base activity is pretty consistent. nor are we doing any kind of purge. This week the drop occurred after 6 days. We are thinking it must be some kind of internal postgres activity but we can't track it down. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Increasing-WAL-usage-followed-by-sudden-drop-tp5719567p5720136.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance