PostGreSQL load increasing over time, why?

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Published on 2010-04-28T02:35:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 2:43 UTC
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It's a CentOS server (I don't know the specs) and just before anybody states the obvious, keep in mind these mitigating factors:

the server does a nightly VACUUM job
all the tables are indexed
it's pretty much read only (meaning the DBs are not increasing in size)
the number of queries being ran has been the same every month

Here's a graph of the server load: alt text

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