"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Following up with this... 22G in one hour, with xlogs on a different
> partition. Just looking at we are averaging 3-5% IOWait, further we are
> only writing ~ 2Megs a second.

It might be interesting to capture some strace output and get a sense of
what's actually being read and written.  It seems to me that the bad
I/O rate has to indicate that we're seeking all over the place.  We
should try to determine exactly what's being touched in what order.

                        regards, tom lane

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