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Re: how can a couple of expensive queries drag my system down?



On Wednesday 26 March 2008, "p prince" <pprince127(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Is this a sign of disk contention?

Yes.

> How does CPU load come into play?

Processes waiting for disk I/O generally show up as load.

-- 
Alan



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