"Dennis" <dennis(at)works4me(dot)com> writes
>
> checking the status of connections at this point ( ps -eaf | grep
> "postgres:") where the CPU is maxed out I saw this:
>
> 127 idle
> 12 bind
> 38 parse
> 34 select
>
Are you sure 100% CPU usage is solely contributed by Postgresql? Also, from
the ps status you list, I can hardly see that's a problem because of problem
you mentioned below.
>
> I know there has been discussion about problems on Xeon MP systems. Is
> this what we are running into? Or is something else going on? Is there
> other information I can provide that might help determine what is going
on?
>
Here is a talk about Xeon-SMP spinlock contention problem:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-05/msg00441.php
Regards,
Qingqing