Re: CPU bound

On 12/19/2010 7:57 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "RA" == Royce Ausburn<royce(at)inomial(dot)com> writes:
> RA> I notice that when restoring a DB on a laptop with an SDD,
> RA> typically postgres is maxing out a CPU - even during a COPY.
>
> The time the CPUs spend waiting on system RAM shows up as CPU
> time, not as Wait time. It could be just that the SSD is fast
> enough that the RAM is now the bottleneck, although parsing
> and text<=>binary conversions (especially for integers, reals
> and anything stored as an integer) also can be CPU-intensive.
>
> -JimC

Good time accounting is the most compelling reason for having a wait
event interface, like Oracle. Without the wait event interface, one
cannot really tell where the time is spent, at least not without
profiling the database code, which is not an option for a production
database.

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