On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Sim Zacks <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Instead of restarting the database try swapoff -a && swapon -a and see if > that helps performance. If it is that little swap in use, it might be > something else clogging up the works. Check to see if kswapd is going crazy or not. If it is, that's the pathological behavior I was talking about earlier. It works real hard at doing nothing and the machine grinds to a halt. swapoff -a fixed it. And it was happening about every 2 weeks for me too. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general