Re: Nooby Q: Should this take five hours? And counting?

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Kenneth Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> ie, 5hrs and counting, no clue how long it intends to run, but methinks this
> is insane even if it is 10^7 records, mebbe half a dozen dups per value (a
> product-id usually around 8-chars long):
>
> CREATE INDEX web_source_items_by_item_id_strip
>               ON web_source_items
>               USING btree (item_id_strip);
>
> Am I unreasonably impatient?
>
> I see pg getting just a few % CPU on a heavily ram/core-endowed Sun box with
> nothing else going on. Mebbe they installed pg on a compact flash? DVD-RW?
> /usr/local/something, prolly not.

What does vmstat 1 60 say during the index build?  Specifically the
cpu columns for user, system, wa?