Marcin <migor@xxxxx> writes: > It seems that some changes to stats collector introduced in 8.1 are > now eating my CPU power, and probably also the (I)/O bandwidth. :( Yeah, something wrong there :-(. What did you say your platform was exactly? Would you strace the collector process, and send maybe ten K or so of trace output to pgsql-bugs? It's probably not appropriate for pgsql-general. regards, tom lane