Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com>
To: markw(at)osdl(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, osdldbt-general(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net
Subject: Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5
Date: 2003-11-01 10:44:35
Message-ID: 3FA38E93.3040502@colorfullife.com
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markw(at)osdl(dot)org wrote:

>Results from 7.4beta5
> http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/188/
> - metric 1446.01
>
>

CPU: P4 / Xeon with 2 hyper-threads, speed 1497.51 MHz (estimated)
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (count cycles when processor is active) count 100000
samples % app name symbol name
15369575 9.6780 postgres SearchCatCache
13714258 8.6357 vmlinux .text.lock.signal
10611912 6.6822 vmlinux do_sigaction
4400461 2.7709 vmlinux rm_from_queue

18% cpu time in the kernel signal handlers.

What are signals used for by postgres? I've seen the sigalarm to
implement timeouts, what else?

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Manfred

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