From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: Peter Newman <Peter.Newman@iop.org>
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] 100% CPU
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:25:56 +1200
Message-ID: <44A766F4.8040606@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060630175834.GH17241@pervasive.com>
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<20060630175834.GH17241@pervasive.com>
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> moving to -performance
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:32:39AM +0100, Peter Newman wrote:
>> Good Morning
>>
>> I am new to postgres and have been asked to look at a server where we
>> truncate a table then load data.
>>
>> The CPU has started to hit 100% usage during this process.
>>
This could be a good sign! - if you are using COPY into a table with no
indexes and your machine has a good IO subsystem, then typically cpu
becomes the limiting factor. However as Jim suggested, more details
would be good, otherwise we are just guessing!
Cheers
Mark
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