On Friday 06 April 2007 13:17, Klaas Dellschaft <klaasd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a > "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this > job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top" I can > see the two processes which should copy the data but most of the time > they are not working. Very seldom they are using some CPU time and then > get idle again. What does the wait % (%wa) say when they are "idle"? I would generally assume you're io-bound on a large COPY, especially if the target table is already indexed. 24-hours seems excessive, though, unless this is a notebook drive or something. -- 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name
