> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> mark@mark.mielke.cc
> Sent: 02 August 2005 05:55
> To: Jeff MacDonald
> Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; andrew@supernews.com;
> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum to-do list
>
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:35:00PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:22:14PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> > [..snipped..]
> > > Right which is why we would need to enforce some max
> value so that
> > > vacuuming will never be totally squeezed out.
> > I'm a linux guy, so please forgive my ignorance, but is it
> even possible to
> > determine load average on win32?
>
> Oooo... That's a lot of win32 ignorance to ignore... :-)
>
> Push control-alt-delete and look under "Performance". I believe
> Windows may even keep *more* information that Linux. It's all a
> question of figuring out what the Win32 API calls are to get what you
> are looking for. Most concepts found in one system are also found in
> the other. I would assume yes before no.
Yes - Win32 has Performance Counters which are an extensible set of
monitored objects, and a rich API to access them - see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/perfmon
/base/performance_monitoring.asp for details. The perfmon program (Start
-> Run -> perfmon -> OK) gives a GUI interface to play with in which you
can monitor any installed counter.
Regards, Dave.