Re: Multi-second pauses blocking even trivial activity

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Patrick Molgaard <draaglom(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Multi-second pauses blocking even trivial activity
Date: 2018-09-07 18:22:52
Message-ID: 486ce67e-f1d3-0a11-ce4b-8c422f8f3c46@commandprompt.com
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On 09/07/2018 11:12 AM, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
>> Intermittently (one or two times a week), all queries on that host are
>> simultaneously blocked for extended periods (10s of seconds).
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>> The blocked queries are trivial & not related to locking - I'm seeing
>> slowlogs of the form:
>>
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> please check if THP are enabled.

Just to help out those who don't know I believe that Andreas is
referring to Transparent Huge Pages.

JD

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> Regards, Andreas
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