Jeff Amiel <becauseimjeff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tracking for last few days. > Does not appear to happen when little or no user > activity (like Saturday) I don't know if that rules > out autovacuum or not (if no update threshholds are > reached, no vacuuming will take place anyway) Can you correlate these occurrences with anything in the regular system logs (kernel log in particular)? The Postgres log shows nothing out of the ordinary --- it's simply that the kernel won't give us 512M for some reason. I'm guessing it's got something to do with overall system load. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings