terrible performance in 6.1beta4

[usleepless at gmail.com]

Miguel,

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote:
> > Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, im
> > using the copy command, using the same file and version of postgres in
> > gentoo it spend a few minutes (~4-5), in freebsd 6.1-beta4 it has
> > already spent 25 minutes and the server apparently is doing nothing, and
> > the reponse time of remote logins or running simple commands like ls -l
> > /etc takes a lot of time (35 secs ort so), cpu usage is very low:

how do your postgresql.conf's compare? things like shared buffers, fsync...

how big is the file?

regards,

usleep