Re: Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization

Mike Bresnahan wrote:
> top - 15:55:05 up 1:33, 2 users, load average: 2.44, 0.98, 0.44
> Tasks: 123 total, 11 running, 112 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 18.9%us, 8.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 70.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 7348132k total, 1886912k used, 5461220k free, 34432k buffers
> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1456472k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>
>
> 2834 postgres 15 0 191m 72m 70m S 16 1.0 0:00.66 postmaster
>
> 2838 postgres 15 0 191m 66m 64m R 15 0.9 0:00.62 postmaster
>

Could you try this again with "top -c", which will label these
postmaster processes usefully, and include the pgbench client itself in
what you post? It's hard to sort out what's going on in these
situations without that style of breakdown.

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