On Dec 13, 2007 5:06 AM, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using centos 5 as the OS so, there's no fancy dtrace to look at > which processes is causing my disks to thrash. > > I have 4 disks in the box. (all ide, 7200rpm) > > 1 OS disk [hda] > 2 raided (1) disks [hdb/hdc] > 1 pg_xlog disk (and also used as an alternate tablespace for [hdd] > temp/in-transit files via select, insert into tmp table. delete from tmp > table, insert into footable select * from tmp table) > > the number of writes and reads on hda is much greater than expected and I'm not sure who/what is causing it. Logging? just guessing. Or swapping. What's free say? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly