I'm not an expert on that, but it seems reasonable to me that the page pool would free space as the I/O system caught up with the load. Also, I'm going on what was said by Qingqing and in one of the pages he referenced:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274310 -Kevin >>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> "Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > None of this seems material, however. It's pretty clear that the > problem was exhaustion of the Windows page pool. > ... > If we don't want to tell Windows users to make highly technical > changes to the Windows registry in order to use PostgreSQL, > it does seem wise to use retries, as has already been discussed > on this thread. Would a simple retry loop actually help? It's not clear to me how persistent such a failure would be. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings