Re: High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.

From: Marc <identd(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "eleven(at)ludojad(dot)itpp(dot)pl" <eleven(at)ludojad(dot)itpp(dot)pl>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High load average with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on debian/ibm eserver.
Date: 2004-06-29 16:17:36
Message-ID: 9662496504062909172bf8034b@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:55:37 +0200, eleven(at)ludojad(dot)itpp(dot)pl
<eleven(at)ludojad(dot)itpp(dot)pl> wrote:

> Performance issue, I'm experiencing here, is somewhat
> weird - server gets high average load (from 5 up to 15,
> 8 on average). Standard performance monitoring
> utilities (like top) show that CPUs are not loaded
> (below 20%, often near zero).

So ... you never actually say what the performance issue you
experience is. Having a high load average is not necessarily a
performance issue.

What is it that you want to fix?

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