On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:23:25PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: - Excerpts from David Kerr's message of lun ago 23 18:15:56 -0400 2010: - > Howdy all, - > - > We're doing some performance testing, and when we scaled it our app up to about 250 concurrent users - > we started seeing a bunch of processes sititng in "PARSE WAITING" state. - > - > Can anyone give me insite on what this means? what's the parse waiting for? - - It means the parse phase is waiting for a lock. You can see exactly - what it's waiting for by looking at pg_locks "WHERE NOT GRANTED". - - Have you got lots of partitions, or something? no, the xlog directory filled up due to me being an idiot. once concern i have though, is that after i freed up space in the pg_xlog directory the processess didn't start moving again.. is that normal? this is 8.3.9) also, as a result i had to crash the DB.. it's now going through and doing this at startup: unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.15779") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.25919") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.13352") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.16276") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.27857") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.34652") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.6804") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.4270") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.26926") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.29281") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.16689") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.36355") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.5502") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.5874") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.19594") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.11514") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.11865") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.20944") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.35733") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.8401") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.3767") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.2101") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.31776") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.15686") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.10364") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.12593") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.6041") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.3030") = 0 unlink("base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.14737") = 0 which isn't the fastest operation.. just for my info, can anyone tell me what pgsql_tmp is, and why the engine is wacking each file individually? Thanks! Dave -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance