>>>>> "JWB" == Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JWB> All these replies are really interesting, but the point is not that my JWB> RAIDs are too slow, or that my CPUs are too slow. My point is that, for JWB> long stretches of time, by database doesn't come anywhere near using the JWB> capacity of the hardware. And I think that's odd and would like to JWB> config it to "false". Have you tried to increase your checkpoing_segments? I get the suspicion that you're checkpointing every 3 minutes constantly. You'll have to restart the postmaster for this setting to take effect, I believe. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-301-869-4449 x806 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
