On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:01 AM, David Newall
<postgresql@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> an expected 40 - 45GB of compressed output. CPU load is 100% on the core
> executing pg_dump, and negligible on all others cores. The system is
> read-mostly, and largely idle. The exact invocation was:
>
> nohup time pg_dump -f database.dmp -Z9 database
Can you connect a few times with gdb and do "bt" to get a backtrace?
That might shed some light on where it's spending all of its time.
...Robert