Cedric Boudin <cedric@dreamgnu.com> writes:
> So the question is: is there a correlation between not getting the wal's
> archived and this "massive" load growth?
Shouldn't be. Do you want to force the condition again and try to see
*where* the cycles are going? "High load factor" alone is a singularly
useless report. Also, how many unarchived WAL files were there?
regards, tom lane