Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Can you get a profile of where the machine is spending its time during the >> dump run? On Linux I'd recommend "perf", but on macOS, hmm ... >> You could use Activity Monitor, but as far as I can see that just captures >> short-duration snapshots, which might not be representative of a 10-hour >> run. XCode's Instruments feature would probably be better about giving >> a full picture, but it has a steep learning curve.
> macOS's "sample" is pretty easy to use and produces text format output > that is easy to email. Ah, good idea. But note that only traces one process, so you'd need to first determine whether it's pg_dump or the backend that's eating most of the CPU. Or sample both of them. regards, tom lane