Ok, we are looking more into this. In the mean time, can someone please explain to me (or point me to the correct documentation) what happens in PostgreSQL when a commit is issued. What exactly does the database do?
Thanks,
Chris
On 5/22/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: Chris Hoover escribió:
> I found an e-mail showing how to strace and here is what I have found. Does
> it help/mean anything to those who can decode this?
>
> We are installing PostgreSQL from the official rpms.
>
> Chris
>
> time strace -c -p 2690
> Process 2690 attached - interrupt to quit
> Process 2690 detached
> % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 42.80 13.003288 251 51790 recv
> 17.47 5.306686 30 175916 send
This means that 60% of the time spent by system calls is due to network
operations. But they account to 18.3 seconds, whereas this
> real 27m21.090s
> user 0m5.379s
> sys 0m23.073s
says that the total time spent is 27:21. So you have to explain the
remaining 27:03 which are elsewhere.
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