Re: [PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 13:37:37 Mozzi wrote: > Hi > > Thanx mate Create Index seems to be the culprit. > Is it normal to just use 1 cpu tho? If it is a single-threaded process, then yes. And a "Create index" on a single table will probably be single-threaded. If you now start a "create index"

Re: [PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Frost
Mozzi, * Mozzi (mozzi.g...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thanx mate Create Index seems to be the culprit. > Is it normal to just use 1 cpu tho? Yes, PG can only use 1 CPU for a given query or connection. You'll start to see the other CPUs going when you have more than one connection to the database. If y

Re: [PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Mozzi : > Hi > > Thanx mate Create Index seems to be the culprit. > Is it normal to just use 1 cpu tho? If you have only one client, yes. If you have more then one active connections, every connection will use one CPU. In your case: create index can use only one CPU. Regards, And

Re: [PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread Mozzi
Hi Thanx mate Create Index seems to be the culprit. Is it normal to just use 1 cpu tho? Mozzi On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:24 +0100, Matthew Wakeling wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Mozzi wrote: > > This box is basically adle @ the moment as it is still in testing yet > > top shows high usage on just 1

Re: [PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Mozzi wrote: This box is basically adle @ the moment as it is still in testing yet top shows high usage on just 1 of the cores. First port of call: What process is using the CPU? Run top on a fairly wide terminal and use the "c" button to show the full command line. Matth

[PERFORM] Overusing 1 CPU

2010-06-02 Thread Mozzi
Hallo all I have a strange problem here. I have a pgsql database running on Intel hardware here, it has 8 cores hyperthreaded so you see 16 cpu's. This box is basically adle @ the moment as it is still in testing yet top shows high usage on just 1 of the cores. mpstat gives the below. As you can