[lwlee]

I totally sympathize with you. I have a Dell 8250. I've already upgraded to Postgres. My database size is about the same as yours. I have about 150 new files to import. When I run the damn program. it will more or less lock up the machine for more than 12 hours. I had to use the machine so I force rebooted.

The software wasn't built well if it constantly locks up the machine. I can understand if it's CPU intensive but better written software will run in the background and give you a visual progress report. I don't know what's it trying to do but the data size doesn't seem to warrant so much CPU usage.