On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Samuel Gendler <sgendler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The original question doesn't actually say that performance has gone down, > only that cpu utilization has gone up. Presumably, with lots more RAM, it is > blocking on I/O a lot less, so it isn't necessarily surprising that CPU > utilization has gone up. The only problem would be if db performance has > gotten worse. Maybe I missed a message where that was covered? I don't see > it in the original query to the list. Load average (which is presumably the metric in question) includes both processes using the CPU and processes waiting for I/O. So it *would* be strange for load average to go up like that, if database configuration remains the same (ie: equal query plans) -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
