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 <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> >>>
"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> 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