On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:24:32 +0400, Hannes Dorbath
<light@theendofthetunnel.de> wrote:
> On 23.08.2007 11:04, Max Zorloff wrote:
>> When one postgres process waits for lock to release does it use any cpu?
>> And also, when apache waits for query to finish, does it use cpu?
>
> No, but are you sure what you see is not i/o wait? What values does top
> display in the %wa columns in the CPU rows? What does iostat -dm 1 say
> say under load?
>
>
Well, vmstat 1 says this on 64 users (last column is the same wa) :
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa
1 0 12336 289880 331224 3473804 0 4 8 259 1 0 31 13
54 3
13 0 12336 288012 331224 3473872 0 0 0 288 1054 3237 59 17
24 0
3 0 12336 284044 331224 3473872 0 0 0 480 908 3922 71 18
11 0
4 0 12336 291500 331224 3473872 0 0 0 248 654 2913 63 13
23 0
6 0 12336 297220 331224 3473940 0 0 0 240 678 3232 44 12
44 0
6 0 12336 304312 331224 3473940 0 0 0 1708 1166 3303 50 17
17 16
9 0 12336 304080 331224 3473940 0 0 0 480 779 4856 61 13
25 0
10 0 12336 309172 331224 3474008 0 0 0 304 697 3094 62 16
21 0
2 0 12336 308180 331224 3474008 0 0 0 272 681 3370 56 12
32 0
0 0 12336 307684 331224 3474076 0 0 0 112 689 3212 44 11
44 0
0 1 12336 312280 331224 3474076 0 0 0 1472 863 3121 51 13
29 7
7 0 12336 310544 331224 3474076 0 0 0 916 1023 3383 59 14
18 9
3 0 12336 309428 331224 3474076 0 0 0 224 731 2974 55 14
30 0
6 0 12336 306444 331224 3474144 0 0 0 392 796 3513 60 14
25 0
