Re: stats collector process high CPU utilization

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Benjamin Minshall" <minshall(at)intellicon(dot)biz>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: stats collector process high CPU utilization
Date: 2007-03-02 01:35:53
Message-ID: 28377.1172799353@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 3/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> I think this explains the trigger that was blowing up my FC4 box.
>>
>> I dug in the archives a bit and couldn't find the report you're
>> referring to?

> I was referring to this:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01418.php

Oh, the kernel-panic thing. Hm, I wouldn't have thought that replacing
a file at a huge rate would induce a kernel panic ... but who knows?
Do you want to try installing the one-liner patch and see if the panic
goes away?

Actually I was wondering a bit if that strange Windows error discussed
earlier today could be triggered by this behavior:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-03/msg00000.php

regards, tom lane

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