The last version of postgres we had in production was 8.1.1 actually, not 8.1.3. So far, on my stability box and older production stability boxes I dont see the same behavior. I will install 8.1.1 on these boxes and see what I see. On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:01, jody brownell wrote: > Sorry about that, I was in a slight panic :) > > I am using postgresql 8.1.4. I will install 8.1.3 and see if the same behavior exists.. we > may have started seeing this in 8.1.3, but I dont think before. I will check some stability > machines for similar bloating. > > The query (calling a store proc) which is always running when the spiral begins is below. It simply performs > bulk linking of two objects. Depending on what the application is detecting, it could be called to insert > 40 - 50k records, 500 at a time. When the box is healthy, this is a 200 - 500 ms op, but this starts to become > a 20000+ ms op. I guess this makes sense considering the paging..... > > Jun 14 12:50:18 xxx postgres[5649]: [3-1] LOG: duration: 20117.984 ms statement: EXECUTE <unnamed> [PREPARE: select * from link_attacker_targets($1, $2, $3) as > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION link_attacker_targets (p_attacker bigint, p_targets varchar, p_targets_size integer) > returns bigint[] as > $body$ > DECLARE > v_targets bigint[]; > v_target bigint; > v_returns bigint[]; > v_returns_size integer := 0; > BEGIN > v_targets := convert_string2bigint_array (p_targets, p_targets_size); > > FOR i IN 1..p_targets_size LOOP > v_target := v_targets[i]; > > BEGIN > INSERT into attacker_target_link (attacker_id, target_id) values (p_attacker, v_target); > v_returns_size := v_returns_size + 1; > v_returns[v_returns_size] := v_target; > > EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN > -- do nothing... app cache may be out of date. > END; > END LOOP; > RETURN v_returns; > END; > $body$ > LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE CALLED ON NULL INPUT SECURITY INVOKER; > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:03, you wrote: > > "jody brownell" <jody.brownell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 27116 postgres 15 0 1515m 901m 91m S 0.0 22.9 18:33.96 postgres: qradar qradar ::ffff:x.x.x.x(51149) idle > > > > This looks like a memory leak, but you haven't provided enough info to > > let someone else reproduce it. Can you log what your application is > > doing and extract a test case? What PG version is this, anyway? > > > > regards, tom lane > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend >