On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 postgres@vrane.com wrote:
> Another gripe I have is that vacuum process does not eat up 100%
> of cpu. In the beginning it peaks around 80% and at the end
> it is stuck around 20%.
That's because your disk subsystem is too slow for the machine.
Put in a disk subsystem that doesn't slow down the machine, and
you'll use all your CPU.
Then you can complain about not using all your disk I/O capacity.
Performance bottlenecks never go away. You can only move them around.
cjs
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