Re: Postmaster processes taking all the CPU

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postmaster processes taking all the CPU
Date: 2007-06-08 22:13:02
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:08:26PM -0500, MC Moisei wrote:
> Yes all the connection are coming from within the box so no network
> latency.Well, isn't the swap can be because too many process
> postmaster are requiring more memory.

But why are they requring more memory? Do you maybe have (e.g.)
work_mem set too high, and that's what is causing your problem? Or
shared buffers too big? This is a common error, and on a smaller set
of data, it won't hurt; but when the data gets to a point, you lose.

A

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