Hi, > I'm wondering... just 4GB of ram? > What's the "normal" "hammering" -- a.k.a. user access -- to all of this? > PG, as expected, launches a separate process for each connection. this eats up > resources quite quickly.... > Did you check your system processes with 'top' ? how's it looking for swap > usage? Swap usage is almost nil. And I only have a constant number of connections (about 10-15) as it serves as the backend for a Web application. Transactions run at about 20-40 per second, but mostly very short and simple ones. Thanks, Guy. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general