Interpreting vacuum verbosity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ed L.
Subject Interpreting vacuum verbosity
Date
Msg-id 200405061956.49734.pgsql@bluepolka.net
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Responses Re: Interpreting vacuum verbosity  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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If I see VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE output like this...

INFO:  --Relation public.foo--
INFO:  Index idx_foo_bar: Pages 219213; Tuples 28007: Deleted 9434.
        CPU 17.05s/4.58u sec elapsed 3227.62 sec.

...am I correct in reading this to say that it took more than 53 minutes
(3227 secs) to get 17 seconds of CPU time?  Is this an indicator of
possible I/O contention?  What else would account for this if my CPUs are
clearly not very busy?

TIA.


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