I found an e-mail showing how to strace and here is what I have found. Does it help/mean anything to those who can decode this?
We are installing PostgreSQL from the official rpms. Chris time strace -c -p 2690 Process 2690 attached - interrupt to quit Process 2690 detached % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 42.80 13.003288 251 51790 recv 17.47 5.306686 30 175916 send 16.23 4.930150 14 342118 stat64 10.26 3.117593 18 174533 write 8.22 2.497767 9 292070 gettimeofday 2.63 0.798323 462 1727 fdatasync 1.83 0.554745 6 92179 _llseek 0.46 0.138782 11 12896 brk 0.09 0.026920 19 1433 semop 0.02 0.006847 4 1734 time 0.00 0.000494 16 31 read 0.00 0.000253 23 11 open 0.00 0.000088 7 12 close 0.00 0.000013 13 1 kill 0.00 0.000010 10 1 sigreturn 0.00 0.000001 1 1 fsync ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 100.00 30.381960 1146453 total real 27m21.090s user 0m5.379s sys 0m23.073s
