>>>>> "RA" == Royce Ausburn <royce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: RA> I notice that when restoring a DB on a laptop with an SDD, RA> typically postgres is maxing out a CPU - even during a COPY. The time the CPUs spend waiting on system RAM shows up as CPU time, not as Wait time. It could be just that the SSD is fast enough that the RAM is now the bottleneck, although parsing and text<=>binary conversions (especially for integers, reals and anything stored as an integer) also can be CPU-intensive. -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance