On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Somebody's really dropped the ball on performance here somewhere. It's difficult to know which component to blame though; any ideas?
Check the other terminals for error messages regarding the CD. A badly burnt or partially unreadable CD can cause a lot of IO that will drag things down.
For what its worth, I don't see the same kind of slowness on any of the test machines at my disposal, i386, x86_64, and even old ppc32.