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<p>It's been there for about 10 hours. Looking at <code>top</code> there appear to be 16 postgresql processes which seems a little odd. I feel a full planet import shouldn't take this long on this hardware as long</p>
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<p>You haven't provided any details about your disk's random IO performance, so it's hard to make any solid comments, but 10h in pending ways is not abnormally slow if you have slower disks.</p>
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