On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Anjan Dave wrote:
> This is a Dell Quad XEON. Hyperthreading is turned on, and I am
> planning to turn it off as soon as I get a chance to bring it down.
>
You should probably also upgrade to Pg 8.0 or newer since it is a
known problem with XEON processors and older postgres versions.
Upgrading Pg may solve your problem or it may not. It is just a
fluke with XEON processors...