terrible performance in 6.1beta4

[Miguel]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote:
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>>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:
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>It's spending all its time reading from disk.  What else is different
>between your two systems (hardware, database configuration)?
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This is a brand new server, with sata controller, 250G disks without 
array, the old one has a hp 5i controller, 6 x 70G 10k 320 scsi disks.

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Miguel