All right.. one more thing here. Any suggestions for how to set overcommit on a postgres db server with 16 GB of RAM and no swap? I think I want vm.overcommit_memory = 2, as I understand that prevents the OOM killer from zapping me. Is 100% the right way to go for overcommit_ratio? Is there a drawback to this? Thanks again. Greig -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-general-f1843780.html