Re: Help troubleshooting SubtransControlLock problems

Apologies! I thought pgsql-admin meant like "systems admin." I've reposted
the question to General.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Scott Frazer <sfrazer(at)couponcabin(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> Hi, we have a Postgres 9.6 setup using replication that has recently
> started seeing a lot of processes stuck in "SubtransControlLock" as a
> wait_event on the read-replicas. Like this, only usually about 300-800 of
> them:
>
>
> 179706 | LWLockNamed | SubtransControlLock
>
> 186602 | LWLockNamed | SubtransControlLock
>
> 186606 | LWLockNamed | SubtransControlLock
>
> 180947 | LWLockNamed | SubtransControlLock
>
> 186621 | LWLockNamed | SubtransControlLock
>
> The server then begins to crawl, with some queries just never finishing
> until I finally shut the server down.
>
> Searching for that particular combo of wait_event_type and wait_event only
> seems to turn up the page about statistics collection, but no helpful
> information on troubleshooting this lock.
>
> Restarting the replica server clears the locks and allows us to start
> working again, but it's happened twice now in 12 hours and I'm worried it
> will happen again.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on where to start looking?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>