Re: Idle processes chewing up CPU?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Brendan Hill" <brendanh(at)jims(dot)net>
Cc: "'Craig Ringer'" <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Idle processes chewing up CPU?
Date: 2009-09-29 01:30:40
Message-ID: 27692.1254187840@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Brendan Hill" <brendanh(at)jims(dot)net> writes:
> Bit of a catch 22 - since it happens rarely, there's no definitive
> confirmation that it's fixed the problem.
> Also, not sure if I'm comfortable applying the change and recompiling
> myself, wouldn't have a clue where to start.

Uh, so you haven't actually tested it at all?

> I can't see how the change would hurt though, seems like a good idea
> regardless, what do you think?

I'm not really inclined to throw it in there just on speculation
that it *might* mask a bug that's really somewhere else.

I can't help you with producing a recompiled executable for Windows,
but there are other people around the list who can.

regards, tom lane

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