On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 18:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > As Greg commented upthread, we seem to be getting forced to the > conclusion that the initial buffer scan in BufferSync() is somehow > causing this. There are a couple of things it'd be useful to try > here: Not sure why you're forced to that conclusion? ISTM more likely to be a problem with checkpointing clog or subtrans. That would block everybody and the scale of the problem is about right. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general