Re: How Many PG_Locks are considered too many

Peter thank you much appreciated

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> On 30 Jul 2015, at 14:54, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 7/30/15 6:13 AM, Renato Oliveira wrote:
>> We have a Nagios plugin, which monitors pg_locks and almost daily we see
>> 3000 to 40000 pg_locks.
>>
>> Can we just ignore them, can we let them grow without worrying?
>>
>> How many pg_locks are considered unsafe for any given postgres server?
>
> That depends on how many concurrent clients you have and what they are
> doing. Every table access will at least create a share lock of some
> kind, so if you have a lot of activity that does a lot of things, you
> will see a lot of locks, but that doesn't impact database performance in
> a significant way.
>
> I don't think monitoring the absolute number of locks is useful. You
> might want to chart it, to compare over time. If you want to monitor
> locks, you could monitor lock waits, which you can get by checking the
> server log.
>