[traven-tech] postgres thrashing?

[john duda]

i don't know what the avergae traven performance is really like, but
this alarms me:

top - 03:05:44 up 1 day, 19:26,  1 user,  load average: 2.64, 1.88, 1.79
Tasks:  84 total,   3 running,  81 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 98.0% us,  1.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.3% si
Mem:   3108316k total,  3065116k used,    43200k free,   406200k buffers
Swap:  2097140k total,        0k used,  2097140k free,  1218412k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                          
20639 postgres  25   0  270m 264m 262m R 83.6  8.7 428:18.65 postmaster
19414 tomcat4   25   0 1308m 1.1g  27m S 15.6 36.8 279:09.17 java
19389 postgres  15   0  7256 2180 1624 S  0.7  0.1   4:21.38 postmaster
19388 postgres  15   0  7972 2980 1616 S  0.3  0.1   5:42.24 postmaster

earlier today there was two crazy postmasters going and load was
closer to 6...is this normal for traven, or is something weird?

john




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