On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am running some test on postgres and I find that top shows about 80% as
> nice  CPU time, 5%user 10% system etc.. Obviously throughput is not a big
> deal good.

> My question is what exactly is nice time? and How can I reduce it..


nice jobs are those which have negative nice value. This system sure seems to
have some very high priority jobs. See if you can renice some of those.


> Postgres daemon is running at priority 5 and all other (my)apps running
> at same priority
> are screaming fast.

I guess that would be the default nice value of 0

-- sreangsu

<personal mode>
p.s. finally upgraded to 2.4.18. The swapping was hell. Should be a lot
better now.
</end personal mode>



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