On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Stefano Nichele <stefano.nichele@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for your help. I'll give you the info you asked as soon as I'll have > it (i have also to install iostat but I don't have enough privilege to do > that). > > BTW, why did you said I/O bound ? Which are the parameters that highlight > that ? Sorry for my ignorance.... In this output, the second to the last column is wa, which stands for wait, the third to last is id, which is CPU idle. r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 1 24 84 124204 25136 3257100 0 0 3037 1154 3359 7253 25 7 6 62 0 2 30 84 124704 25136 3256344 0 0 3004 1269 3553 7906 33 9 7 51 0 0 25 84 125784 24956 3253344 0 0 3357 773 3163 6454 17 4 10 68 0 So here the first line reports 25% user 7% system 6% idle 62% wait So it's mostly waiting. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
