Re: LWlock:LockManager waits

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: James Pang <jamespang886(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LWlock:LockManager waits
Date: 2024-04-09 04:31:48
Message-ID: 4d260f0d07074479808f893b1457af3a48c55355.camel@cybertec.at
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On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 11:07 +0800, James Pang wrote:
>    we found sometimes , with many sessions running same query "select ..." at the same time, saw many sessions waiting on "LockManager".  for example, pg_stat_activity show.  It's a production server, so no enable trace_lwlocks flag. could you direct me what's the possible reason and how to reduce this "lockmanager" lock?  all the sql statement are "select " ,no DML.
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>    time                                             wait_event           count(pid) 
> 2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | DataFileRead  |    42
>  2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 |               |    15
>  2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | LockManager   |    31
>  2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | BufferMapping |    46
>  2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | LockManager   |    43
>  2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | DataFileRead  |    28
>  2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | ClientRead    |    11
>  2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 |               |    11

That's quite obvious: too many connections cause internal contention in the database.

Reduce the number of connections by using a reasonably sized connection pool.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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