From: | Vijaykumar Jain <vijaykumarjain(dot)github(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-performa(dot)" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: transaction blocking on COMMIT |
Date: | 2021-05-24 14:09:47 |
Message-ID: | CAM+6J97rfDJkmiSJwcpJzbZZ75b5qubo7ZdCAPE1GBVvXMVQzA@mail.gmail.com |
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No worries,
There were some threads earlier which mentioned some automated changes to
disk by the provider that resulted in some slowness.
But otherwise also, do you query system, disk metrics.
Do you see any anomaly in disk io (wait) when you saw blocking?
If it did, did the io return to normal when blocks were cleared ?
On Mon, May 24, 2021, 7:23 PM Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello Jain
>
> Sorry forgot to indicate: it is running the ubuntu packaged version
> 13.3 on ubuntu 20.04.
>
> It is not in the cloud, but is a VM in a government datacentre. I am
> not sure of the underlying hyperviser. I could find out.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 12:35, Vijaykumar Jain
> <vijaykumarjain(dot)github(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I think there have been similar issues reported earlier as well. But it
> would be too early to generalize.
> >
> >
> > Where is the db server running? Cloud?
> >
> > Also what is the version ?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2021, 5:00 PM Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am seeing a strange issue on a database using jdbc. Regularly, 4 or
> >> 5 times a day, I see something like a "stutter", where a bundle of
> >> maybe 30 transactions suddenly finish at the same time. It looks like
> >> (it is quite hard to catch this exactly) that the lead transaction
> >> which has been blocking the rest has been blocked in COMMIT. In each
> >> case it blocks for almost exactly 30s, just over, and once it goes
> >> through, releases locks, and the others clear behind it.
> >>
> >> My question: what are the range of possibilities that might cause a
> >> COMMIT to block? I haven't seen this before. Is there anything
> >> suspicious about the regular 30s? Occasionally we see 60s, which
> >> seems likely to be two sets of 30.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>
>
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