Hi ALL, we have a site that uses postgres as a backend for a forum. this forum does a lot of deletes, selects and inserts. just recently for some reason postgres eats a lot of processing power.. here are some tech-details: tcpip_socket = true max_connections = 260 superuser_reserved_connections = 2 port = 5432 shared_buffers = 40102 sort_mem = 4096 effective_cache_size = 4000 #fsync = true #wal_sync_method = fsync #log_statement = true #log_duration = true #syslog = 0 # range 0-2 #syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0' #syslog_ident = 'postgres' # # Locale settings # # (initialized by initdb -- may be changed) LC_MESSAGES = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_MONETARY = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_NUMERIC = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_TIME = 'en_US.UTF-8' ** im doing an hourly vaccum 0 1-23 * * * bin/vacuumdb --port 5432 --analyze -d myforumdb 1>/dev/null 2>/tmp/vaccum_hourly.log --> is the hourly vaccum necessary? for some reason vaccum takes to much time.. input on how to make things work fast is highly appreciated.. tia, ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org