Erik Jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 8.2.5 on Solaris 10. Before we upgraded to 8.2.4 it was doing about > 65 Mbs/sec. Interestingly, a while back we were running with the > data directory mounted with forcedirectio and saw none of this, I'm > guessing that fsync calls would have something to do with that? Hmm ... no, because the stats file never gets fsync'd. I should think that forcedirectio would have made things worse. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend