Re: Sun vs. Mac

> I believe top's percent-of-CPU numbers for individual
> processes are time
> averages over a minute or so, so the ramping effect is
> unsurprising.

Thanks - this makes much more sense.

> > This doesn't really tell me much, except I'm guessing that
> > PG is CPU bound?
>
> Yup, that seems pretty clear.  Next step is to find out what
> the heck
> it's doing.  My instinct would be to use gprof.  Recompile
> with
> profiling enabled --- if you're using gcc, this should work
>     cd postgres-distribution/src/backend
>     make clean
>     make PROFILE=-pg all
>     make install-bin    -- may need to stop postmaster
> Next run some sample queries (put them all into one session).
> After quitting the session, find gmon.out in the
> $PGDATA/base/nnn/ subdirectory corresponding to your database,

> and feed it to gprof.
> The results should show where the code hotspot is.

Well if that isn't a fancy bit of info....  Thanks!

gprof says:

Fatal ELF error: can't read ehdr (Request error: class
file/memory mismatch)

I'm guessing that's not what we're expecting...  I'm using
/usr/ccs/bin/gprof - maybe there's a better one?

-X


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