On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Anton V. Belyaev
<anton.belyaev@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 4-cored machine, so I expected the query to be able to run for
> a long time without performance degrade for application.
As Bill mentioned, this won't help a bit if you've got a slow / dodgy
/ overloaded IO subsystem. What does vmstat 1 60 have to say about
the situation when the queries are running?