On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:44 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > 23425 postgres 20 0 22008 10m 10m R 99.9 0.5 21:45.87 postmaster > > I'd like to figure out what it is doing. How can I figure out what > statement causes the problem? > It seems strange that the postmaster is eating 99% cpu. Is there a chance that it's flooded with connection attempts? Usually the work is done by backend processes, not the postmaster. The postmaster just does some management like accepting connections and starting new processes. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance