Re: CPU load high

From: Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de>
To: Max Zorloff <zorloff(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: CPU load high
Date: 2007-08-23 08:24:32
Message-ID: 46CD4440.4030202@theendofthetunnel.de
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On 23.08.2007 11:04, Max Zorloff wrote:
> When one postgres process waits for lock to release does it use any cpu?
> And also, when apache waits for query to finish, does it use cpu?

No, but are you sure what you see is not i/o wait? What values does top
display in the %wa columns in the CPU rows? What does iostat -dm 1 say
say under load?

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Regards,
Hannes Dorbath

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