Thom Brown wrote: > It is running on 64-bit Gentoo 2.6.25. > > You might be right about needing to increase the shared buffers. Thanks for > the suggestion. I'll have to give that a try If shared_buffers was so small that you can't handle the connections you might benefit from one of the links on this page. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Performance_Optimization Try the first one, that gives you a good overview. Oh and if you're running a web-application consider connection pooling - pgbouncer or pgpool. Oh, and upgrade from 8.3.1 to the latest in the 8.3 series at your earliest convenience. http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
