Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76 <at> gmail.com> writes: > I have seen behavior like this in the past on EC2. I believe your bottleneck may be pulling the data out of cache. I benchmarked this a while back and found that memory speeds are not much faster than disk speeds on EC2. I am not sure if that is true of Xen in general or if its just limited to the cloud. When the CPU is waiting for a memory read, are the CPU cycles not charged to the currently running process? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general