Hi, iam running postgresql on two identical dl380 2.4 Xeon with 3gb RAM, i have recently upgraded one of then from redhat 7.3 (kernel 2.4) to gentoo (kernel 2.6), at the same time i upgraded postgres from 7.3 to 8.1, im very disapointed, all the querys are 20-25% slower using the new versions, the following setting are the same in postgresql.conf shared_buffers = 10240 work_mem = 5120 max_fsm_pages = 170000 max_fsm_relations = 10000 i havent touched anything else. However i see a lot of new setting in PG8, is there a online manual for tunnig these new settings?, may be a need some fine setting here and there. thanks ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend