| From: | Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jim Nasby <Jim(at)Nasby(dot)net> |
| Cc: | James Cloos <cloos(at)jhcloos(dot)com>, Royce Ausburn <royce(at)inomial(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: CPU bound |
| Date: | 2011-01-03 16:17:18 |
| Message-ID: | 4D21F68E.9070004@vmsinfo.com |
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Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>
>> Good time accounting is the most compelling reason for having a wait event interface, like Oracle. Without the wait event interface, one cannot really tell where the time is spent, at least not without profiling the database code, which is not an option for a production database.
>>
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> Out of curiosity, have you tried using the information that Postgres exposes to dtrace? I suspect it comes close to what you can get directly out of Oracle...
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> Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect jim(at)nasby(dot)net
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No, I haven't but I looked it in the documentation. I surmise, however,
that I will have to build my software with "--enable-dtrace", which is
not enabled by default. This certainly looks promising.
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Mladen Gogala
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