| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, carlos(dot)reimer(at)opendb(dot)com(dot)br |
| Subject: | Re: Context switching |
| Date: | 2006-11-07 17:42:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200611070942.26663.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Carlos,
> We've migrated one of our servers from pg 7.4 to 8.1 and from times to
> times (4 hours) the server start doing a lot of context switching and all
> transactions become very slow.
>
> The average context switching for this server as vmstat shows is 1 but when
> the problem occurs it goes to 250000.
Context Switching is a symptom rather than a cause. What's most likely
happening is that you have a combined heavy-CPU and heavy-IO workload, so you
have bursts of CPU activity stalled by iowaits.
Can you check the rate of iowaits during the "storm" periods?
Also, is this Xeon? And are you saying that you *didn't* have this issue
under 7.4?
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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