Re: High SYS CPU - need advise

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vlad <marchenko(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High SYS CPU - need advise
Date: 2012-11-20 22:35:46
Message-ID: CAMkU=1xzTDgaswki6Ymp=8KXhhzcj7y1vk4OPew3bhALdieQNg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 04:08 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
>
>> Shaun Thomas reports one that is (I assume) not read intensive, but
>> his diagnosis is that this is a kernel bug where a larger
>> shared_buffers for no good reason causes the kernel to kill off its
>> page cache.
>
>
> We're actually very read intensive.

Sorry, that is what I meant. I wrote "not write intensive", then
decided it would be clearer to change "not write" to "read" and then
forgot to remove the "not". I hate it when that happens.

Atomic update commit failure in the meatware :)

Cheers,

Jeff

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