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Re: max time in a table query takes ages

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On Friday 24 October 2008, "Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz" <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> with two sata discs in software raid 1 on linux. And it seems to spend
> loads of time (40-60% sometimes) on waits.  I guess this is due to lack of
> >aio support in postgresql, 

No, it's due to the fact that hard disks are slow; much, much slower than 
CPU or memory.

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Alan

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