On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Jayashankar K B <Jayashankar.KB@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > We are having an embedded system with a freescale m68k architecture based > micro-controller, 256MB RAM running a customized version of Slackware 12 > linux. > > It’s a relatively modest Hardware. > > We have installed postgres 9.1 as our database engine. While testing, we > found that the Postgres operations take more than 70% of CPU and the average > also stays above 40%. Not to dissuade you from using pgsql, but have you tried other dbs like the much simpler SQL Lite? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance