On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > if this is the case, how hard would it be to have threads add and remove > themselves from some list as they get busy/become idle? > > I've been puzzled as I've been watching this conversation on what internal > locking/lookup is happening that is causing the problems with idle threads > (the pure memory overhead isn't enough to account for the problems that are > being reported) That's because this thread has altogether too much theory and altogether too little gprof. :-) ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance