First, sorry if this has been answered before; the list search seems to be down...
This is on a quad Xeon-PII 450 machine running FBSD 4.8. 84386 pgsql 64 0 104M 99M RUN 1 78:20 61.87% 61.87% postgres 84385 decibel 64 0 3748K 2268K CPU1 3 49:49 37.79% 37.79% pg_dump (note that the CPU percents are per-cpu, so 100% would be 100% of one CPU) According to vmstat, there's very little disk I/O, so that's not a bottleneck. The command I used was: pg_dump -vFc -f pgsql-20030906.cdb stats It should be compressing, but if that was the bottleneck, shouldn't the pg_dump process be at 100% CPU? It does seem a bit coincidental that the two procs seem to be taking 100% of one CPU (top shows them running on different CPUs though). This is version 7.3.4. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
