No. The only side effects is constant CPU load on this level (15%) regardless if there is DB activity or no. The machine is 2*quad so 15 of 800 isn't really much - but I afraid what will be, if I'll get more significant traffic there. As you mentioned the total time summary is the effect of uptime which is about half a year now. > 2008/10/8 Wojciech Strzałka <wstrzalka@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> For clarification 250k is total relation count. >> There is 85k plain tables + 45k toasts. >> >> Except stats collector overload, the cluster works fine ( no really >> surprising, while we are using world best database :D ) > Couple of other points here: > *) stats collector process is very long lived and does things, so will > accumulate cpu time according to top over the shorter lived backend > connections > *) most servers are multi core these days...stats will eat at most one core > maybe this is a non-problem? are you seeing other issues outside of > high cpu time according to top? > merlin -- Pozdrowienia, Wojciech Strzałka