Re: 100% CPU pg processes that don't die.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> * Scott Marlowe (scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>>> Aug 9 13:13:21 engelberg kernel: [71242.735046]
>>>
>>> Does this look like a kernel bug or a pgsql bug to most people?
>>
>> It's certainly something kernel-related. It might be the OOM killer
>> though.. You might want to disable that. Is the box running out of
>> memory (run 'free')?
>
> Hehe, no. It's got 32 Gig of ram and is using 25G of that for kernel
> cache. There are no entries in any log for oom killer that I can see.
>
> Hmmm. I'm running the latest Ubuntu LTS with 2.6.24-19-server kernel.
>
> Just ran the latest apt-get upgrade and only was missing an update to
> pciutils.
>
> btw, here's the output of free:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 33080292 32983004 97288 0 87992 24882632
> -/+ buffers/cache: 8012380 25067912
> Swap: 7815580 144 7815436
>
> Interesting thing, I've got a machine with the same configuration
> sitting next to it that's not doing this. But it seems odd it could
> be hardware induced.

I take that back. This problem followed the RAID card from one
machine to another.