Re: Hanging queries on dual CPU windows

On Thursday 09 March 2006 15:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan de Visser <jdevisser(at)digitalfairway(dot)com> writes:
> > Furtermore, it does not happen on Linux machines, both single CPU and
> > dual CPU, nor on single CPU windows machines. We can only reproduce on a
> > dual CPU windows machine, and if we take one CPU out, it does not happen.
> > ...
> > Which showed me that several transactions where waiting for a particular
> > row which was locked by another transaction. This transaction had no
> > pending locks (so no deadlock), but just does not complete and hence
> > never relinquishes the lock.
>
> Is the stuck transaction still consuming CPU time, or just stopped?

CPU drops off. In fact, that's my main clue something's wrong ;-)

>
> Is it possible to get a stack trace from the stuck process? I dunno
> if you've got anything gdb-equivalent under Windows, but that's the
> first thing I'd be interested in ...

I wouldn't know. I'm hardly a windows expert. Prefer not to touch the stuff,
myself. Can do some research though...

>
> regards, tom lane

jan

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