A friend of mine has an application where he's copying in 4000 rows at a time into a table that has about 4M rows. Each row is 40-50 bytes. This is taking 25 seconds on a dual PIII-1GHz with 1G of RAM and a 2 disk SATA mirror, running FBSD 4.10-stable. There's one index on the table.
What's really odd is that neither the CPU or the disk are being hammered. The box appears to be pretty idle; the postgresql proces is using 4-5% CPU. I seem to recall others running into this before, but I can't remember what the issue was and I can't find it in the archives. This is version 8.0, btw. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster