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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:34:06 -0600
From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas@peak6.com>
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Subject: Re: Very long deletion time on a 200 GB database
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On 02/24/2012 12:39 AM, Reuven M. Lerner wrote:

> - CPU is virtually idle when running the deletes, using about 1% of
> CPU

I think you found your problem.

See if you can get the Windows admins to give you some info on how busy 
the disks are (percent utilization, IOPS, something) the next time you 
try this. Increasing your memory settings may help, but a 1% CPU usage 
usually suggests it's waiting for disk blocks to be read before it can 
actually do something.

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