On 17 Mar 2003 18:10:14 -0500, Trevor Bylsma
<tbylsma@atreus-systems.com> wrote:
>postmaster will use most of the CPU for an extended amount of time
>(which isn't odd) but 75% of that is system level (which seems odd)...
You have not told us anything about your hardware and operating
system, but if you are running Linux and if you have IDE drives and if
DMA is not enabled, then
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd<x>
might help.
>Mem: 257136K av, 241656K used, 15480K free, 147956K shrd, 55740K buff
BTW, I hope "147956K shrd" is not exclusively due to Postgres shared
buffers.
Servus
Manfred
