Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418949FA6AE for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:23:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47371-07 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:23:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from mx01.bfk.de (mx01.bfk.de [193.227.124.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDB59FA6A6 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:22:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mx00.int.bfk.de ([10.119.110.2]) by mx01.bfk.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1ITJB7-00084Z-AZ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:21:57 +0200 Received: from fweimer by bfk.de with local id 1ITJAl-0005LX-BU; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:21:35 +0200 To: Willo van der Merwe Cc: Jean-David Beyer , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware spec References: <46DFA43C.2030201@mirasol.co.za> <46DFB79E.9040407@archonet.com> <46DFC7D6.2080803@mirasol.co.za> <46DFE170.20206@verizon.net> <46DFE674.6060702@mirasol.co.za> <82k5r3op0o.fsf@mid.bfk.de> <46E00F9C.40704@mirasol.co.za> From: Florian Weimer Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:21:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46E00F9C.40704@mirasol.co.za> (Willo van der Merwe's message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:33:00 +0200") Message-ID: <82d4wvom4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200709/80 X-Sequence-Number: 26625 * Willo van der Merwe: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> You need to run "vmstat 10" (for ten-second averages) and report a >> couple of lines. > 2 80 1 > 5 0 61732 37052 28180 3431956 0 0 14 987 2320 2021 38 > sda3 3.30 0.00 26.40 0 264 > sda8 97.90 0.00 783.20 0 7832 These values don't look I/O bound to me. CPU usage is pretty low, too. --=20 Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra=DFe 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99