Dear Luis,
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> nbuf is set to 6653, here is a excerpt from par, thanks and regards
What kind of SGI are you using, and how much memory does it have?
I don't know what to make out of this par output. If this is from a running
Postgres, then it's waiting for a lock. Try the following:
echo where | dbx -p <pid>
where <pid> is for the Postgres backend.
--Bob
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