Hallöchen! hubert depesz lubaczewski writes: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:15:06PM +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> I need statistics about the PG server load. At the moment, I use >> for this >> >> SELECT tup_returned + tup_fetched + tup_inserted + tup_updated + >> tup_deleted FROM pg_stat_database WHERE datname='mydb'; >> >> However, the figures are absurdly high (> 100.000 rows per second). >> If a "row" is one dataset (one user account, one blog entry, one >> comment etc), I expect two or three orders of magnitude less. Is my >> SQL statement nevertheless a good way to measure how busy the server >> is? > > did you rememebr to substract *previous* value of this select? Yes, I did. I plot curves, and they seem to be proportional to the load. It's just the absolute values that look very strange. Additionally, I don't know whether the above sum makes sense at all. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: torsten.bronger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general