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. -- Alan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general