Re: System Wait kill MySQL/PostgreSQL performance ?

[Loic Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

Steffen Neumann <sneumann@ipk-gatersleben.de> - Fri, Sep 10, 2004:

> I have a problem importing data from Flat Files
> into either MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.
> Importing some 6 million lines takes 
> as few as 60 seconds on a fast Opteron server,
> and will not finished overnight on my 1.5Ghz Centrino Laptop.
> Top shows the Laptop is stuck in 9x% Wait.

 You might want to benchmark your disks (Opteron server & laptop) with
 hdparm -t and -T.

   Regards,

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>