Standby server lagging behind

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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hi</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Weare 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
shouldbe 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?</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Someinfo</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Liveserver –16CPU, 80G Ram</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">wewrite about 2to3 16MB WAL files per minute</span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">These get copied to the standby so
itsall there, just not being applied fast enough. </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Anyadvice would be most welcome</span><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Ta</span><span
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