Re: High load average in 64-core server , no I/O wait and CPU is idle

| From: "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
| To: "Rajesh Kumar. Mallah" <mallah(at)tradeindia(dot)com>
| Cc: "Andy Colson" <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, "Claudio Freire" <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:23:47 PM
| Subject: Re: [PERFORM] High load average in 64-core server , no I/O wait and CPU is idle
|
| On 05/24/2012 05:58 AM, Rajesh Kumar. Mallah wrote:
| > Dear Andy ,
| >
| > Following the discussion on load average we are now investigating
| on some
| > other parts of the stack (other than db).
| >
| > Essentially we are bumping up the limits (on appserver) so that more
| requests
| > goes to the DB server.
| Which leads to the question: what, other than the db, runs on this
| machine?

No nothing else runs on *this* machine.
We are lucky to have such a beefy hardware dedicated to postgres :)
We have a separate machine for application server that has 2 tiers.
I am trying to reach to the point to max out the db machine , for that
to happen we need to work on the other parts.

regds
mallah.

|
| Cheers,
| Steve