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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:56:21 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ffsfsn
Message-ID:  <20010406095621.S17723@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010406161837.A6182@netserv1.chg.ru>; from dima@Chg.RU on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:18:37PM %2B0400
References:  <20010406161837.A6182@netserv1.chg.ru>

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* Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU> [010406 05:18] wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> What does 'ffsfsn' state (shown in top(1) output) mean?
> I am inserting records in Postgres, and the process is going very slowly
> probably due to postgres is in this state...

Looks like part of the file being fsync'd.  Did you read the docs
that come with Postgresql?  There's an option you need to use to
disable calls to fsync() for each operation that ought to speed
things up for you.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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