On 2008-08-13 10:06, Bartels, Eric wrote: > After a while the whole system memory is eaten up and every > operation becomes very slow. Show us: - output of "free" command, when server gets slow. - output of "ps v --sort=-size | head -10" - output of "ps auxww | grep postgres" - in terminal start "top", write "fp", enter, "Fp", enter; copy us upper half of your terminal screen. - what options did you change in postgresql.conf? Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh