Standby server lagging behind

Hi

We are running postgres8.3.9 and have enabled log shipping replication. Our standby server is about 1000 files BEHIND - everything I've read indicates that the standby server should be very close behind the live server - at the rate we're going it will take 8 hours to apply all the logs to standby! How can I speed up the recovery process on the standby server?

Some info
Live server -16CPU, 80G Ram
we write about 2to3 16MB WAL files per minute
These get copied to the standby so its all there, just not being applied fast enough.

Any advice would be most welcome

Ta:)

Huda Booley
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