Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DE76327AE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:10:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36283-02 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:09:27.891551 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp1.vianet.ca (smtp1.vianet.ca [209.91.128.18]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E268632768 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:10:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.99.118] (pem-goatfarm.vianet.ca [209.91.179.158]) by smtp1.vianet.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53861179664 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C3DFB3C.6070701@vianet.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:28 -0400 From: Kris Deugau Organization: ViaNet Internet Solutions User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.14eol) Gecko/20100331 CentOS/1.0.9-54.el4.centos SeaMonkey/1.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: proper tuning for restoring from pg_dump in 8.3.7 References: <1279126650.22775.9.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> <8594.1279127977@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.011 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_40=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/77 X-Sequence-Number: 35096 Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote: > OK, thanks to multiple folks for letting me know that I was looking at > the wrong "top" metric. That said, my performance in most definitely > suffering -- does this "swap" number seem excessive (looks like ~100 G > to me): > Swap: 102399992k total Total swap isn't an issue (except maybe in wasted disk - that *does* seem *very* high). It's the next column over (swap used) that you need to keep an eye on. -kgd