Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5C363E829 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:47:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35396-02-8 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:47:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from marajade.localdomain (vcs5.camavision.com [63.228.164.252]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607AE6356F4 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:36:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.10.85] (unknown [192.168.10.85]) (Authenticated sender: andy) by marajade.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D7B11406E2; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:36:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4B688CC4.60001@squeakycode.net> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:36:20 -0600 From: Andy Colson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: System overload / context switching / oom, 8.3 References: <4B6878DF.3000004@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6878DF.3000004@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.185 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_40=-0.185 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201002/34 X-Sequence-Number: 37455 On 2/2/2010 1:11 PM, Rob wrote: > > Linux 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 17:30:05 UTC 2009 i686 > GNU/Linux (Debian Etch) > > 8 MB RAM > 4 Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz stepping 06 > L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K, L2 cache: 6144K > Well _there's_ your problem! Ya need more RAM! hee hee, I know, I know, probably 8 gig, but just had to be done. -Andy