From: Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: external sort performance
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:56:14 +0000
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On 2011-11-17 17:10, Jon Nelson wrote:
> external sort ended, 7708696 disk blocks used: CPU 359.84s/57504.66u
> sec elapsed 58966.76 sec
>
> Am I to understand that the CPU portion of the sorting only took 6
> minutes but the sort itself took almost 16.5 hours and used approx
> 60GB of disk space?
I realise you've had helpful answers by now, but.... that reads
as 16 hours of cpu time to me; mostly user-mode but with 6 minute
of system-mode. 98% cpu usage for the 16 hours elapsed.
--
Jeremy
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