The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2567
Logged by: kumarselvan
Email address: kumar (AT) nexge (DOT) com
PostgreSQL version: 8.1
Operating system: Linux Enterprise version 3
Description: High IOWAIT
Details:

i have installed the postgres as mentioned in the Install file. it is a 4
cpu 8 GB Ram Machine installed with Linux Enterprise version 3. when i am
running a load which will perfrom 40 inserts persecond on 2 tables and 10
updates per 10seconds on differnt table IOWait on avg going upto 70% due to
which i am not able to increase the load. Is there is any other way to
install the postgres on multiprocessor machine.. can any one help me on
this...

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This isn't a bug; moving to pgsql-performance.

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:42:02AM +0000, kumarselvan wrote:
You haven't given us nearly enough information. What kind of hardware is
this? RAID? What changes have you made to postgresql.conf?
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