Re: What happens on a commit?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What happens on a commit?
Date: 2007-05-22 19:30:10
Message-ID: 20070522193010.GH11032@alvh.no-ip.org
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Chris Hoover escribió:
> I found an e-mail showing how to strace and here is what I have found. Does
> it help/mean anything to those who can decode this?
>
> We are installing PostgreSQL from the official rpms.
>
> Chris
>
> time strace -c -p 2690
> Process 2690 attached - interrupt to quit
> Process 2690 detached
> % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 42.80 13.003288 251 51790 recv
> 17.47 5.306686 30 175916 send

This means that 60% of the time spent by system calls is due to network
operations. But they account to 18.3 seconds, whereas this

> real 27m21.090s
> user 0m5.379s
> sys 0m23.073s

says that the total time spent is 27:21. So you have to explain the
remaining 27:03 which are elsewhere.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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