On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Freeman, Tim <tim.freeman@hp.com> wrote:
>>Can you tell if the system is i/o or cpu bound during compaction?
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> It's I/O bound.  It's using ~9% of 1 of 4 cores as I watch it, and all it's doing right now is compactions.

What does iostat -x 10 (for instance) say about the disk activity?