"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> What's really odd is that neither the CPU or the disk are being
> hammered. The box appears to be pretty idle; the postgresql proces is
> using 4-5% CPU.
Is he committing every row? In that case you would see fairly low i/o
bandwidth usage because most of the time is being spent seeking and waiting
for rotational latency.
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greg