Slow application response on lightly loaded server?

From: Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Slow application response on lightly loaded server?
Date: 2012-07-17 16:27:23
Message-ID: CANPAkgtV-0r=ZqGGJm6mvi1CZNvBJSWdfFX2bjFOQJMebr035Q@mail.gmail.com
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We're seeing slow application performance on a PostgreSQL 9.1 server which
appears to be relatively lightly loaded. Some graphs from pgstatview are
at http://www2.uptimeforce.com/pgstatview/e35ba4e7db0842a1b9cf2e10a4c03d91/
These cover approximately 40 minutes, during which there was some activity
from a web application and two bulk loads in process.

The machine running the bulk loads (perl scripts) is also running at about
70% idle with very little iowait. That seems to suggest network latency to
me.

Am I missing something in the server stats that would indicate a problem?
If not, where should I look next?

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