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Subject: Re: cpu bound postgresql setup.
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
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Excerpts from Rajesh Kumar Mallah's message of jue jun 24 13:25:32 -0400 2010:

> What prompted me to post to list is that the server transitioned from
> being IO bound to CPU bound and 90% of syscalls being
> lseek(XXX, 0, SEEK_END) = YYYYYYY

It could be useful to find out what file is being seeked.  Correlate the
XXX with files in /proc/<pid>/fd (at least on Linux) to find out more.

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