"S" == Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> The system is actually idling when I ran the tests (load average: 0.01, S> 0.02, 0.00). When VACUUM runs, load average increases quickly (load average: S> 1.77, 0.60, 0.21) just by running psql on command line and issuing 2 S> queries. I've been running PostgreSQL for over 3 years now and IIRC VACUUM
Your CPU usage is irrelevent here. What's your *disk* utilization. Does linux have systat and/or iostat to tell you how busy your disks are?
It has a rather verbose vmstat which gives everything.
Shridhar
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