Bryan White wrote:
> ...
> The new server is a dual socket Nahalem. 8 cores, 16 threads, 48 GB
> ram, 2 WAL drives in RAID1 and 12 database drives in RAID10.
>
I would try setting -j higher - in your case try 8 for starters. Also
turn off fsync and autovacuum (and turn them back on !!!). See these and
more tips at:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/using-84-parallel-restore-with-your-83-or-82-database-31575
Cheers,
Steve