On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:06:37AM +0200, Bartels, Eric wrote: > After a while the whole system memory is eaten up and every > operation becomes very slow. Shortly after a system reboot > and even without sending queries against the database the > whole system memory is consumed after some time. You don't even show any evidence here that Postgres is using the memory. How do you know that? A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/