> > values from /proc/stat - and averages them over the timeperiod you
> > specify.
>
> LOL! If that's true, why does running it with no arguments produce one line
> of output if it's going to be wrong? I'd count that as a form of bug.
Heh. Have fun reporting it. Been that way since /proc/stat was invented -
and psutils was written :)
Either way, thats not a postgres problem - so off topic.
have fun with vmstat. Watch the numbers when your db gets loaded. Might
well tell you exactly where your bottleneck is.
Chad