Update your questions . time find /pgdata /pgarchive /pgwal -ls |wc 82165 903817 8397391 real 0m1.120s user 0m0.432s sys 0m0.800s ps -u postgres -O wchan============================= PID ============================ S TTY TIME COMMAND 1951 - D ? 00:26:37 /usr/pgsql-13/bin/postmaster -D /pgdata -c config_file=/pgdata/postgresql.conf 2341 - S ? 00:00:06 postgres: logger 2361 - S ? 00:01:02 postgres: checkpointer 2362 - S ? 00:00:27 postgres: background writer 2363 - S ? 00:00:59 postgres: walwriter 2364 - S ? 00:02:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher 2365 - Z ? 00:00:04 [postmaster] <defunct> 2366 do_epoll_wait S ? 00:13:30 postgres: stats collector 2367 do_epoll_wait S ? 00:00:18 postgres: pg_cron launcher 2368 - S ? 00:00:00 postgres: logical replication launcher 1053144 - Z ? 00:05:36 [postmaster] <defunct> 1053319 - Z ? 00:05:29 [postmaster] <defunct> 1053354 - Z ? 00:05:53 [postmaster] <defunct> 1053394 - Z ? 00:05:51 [postmaster] <defunct> ... 1064387 - Z ? 00:05:13 [postmaster] <defunct> 1070257 - D ? 00:24:23 postgres: test pbwd 192.168.205.53(55886) BIND 1070258 - D ? 00:24:24 postgres: test pbwd 192.168.205.50(58910) BIND 1070259 - D ? 00:24:22 postgres: test pbwd 192.168.205.133(48754) SELECT 1070260 - Z ? 00:05:02 [postmaster] <defunct> ... Strace / gdb will hang there too for trace a process. Regards, James -----Original Message----- From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2022 10:20 AM To: James Pang (chaolpan) <chaolpan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: postgres backend process hang on " D " state On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 01:19:56AM +0000, James Pang (chaolpan) wrote: > 1. extensions > shared_preload_libraries = 'orafce,pgaudit,pg_cron,pg_stat_statements,set_user' > 2. psql can not login now ,it hang there too, so can not check > anything from pg_stats_* views 3. one main app user and 2 schemas ,no long running transactions . > 4. we use /pgdata , it's on xfs , lvm/vg RHEL8.4 ,it's a shared storage, no use root filesystem. > /dev/mapper/pgdatavg-pgdatalv 500G 230G 271G 46% /pgdata > /dev/mapper/pgdatavg-pgarchivelv 190G 1.5G 189G 1% /pgarchive > /dev/mapper/pgdatavg-pgwallv 100G 34G 67G 34% /pgwal What are the LVM PVs ? Is it a scsi/virt device ? Or iscsi/drbd/??? I didn't hear back if there's any kernel errors. Is the storage broken/stuck/disconnected ? Can you run "time find /pgdata /pgarchive /pgwal -ls |wc" ? Could you run "ps -u postgres -O wchan=============================" Can you strace one of the stuck backends ? It sounds like you'll have to restart the service or VM (forcibly if necessary) to resolve the immediate issue and then collect the other info, and leave a "psql" open to try to (if the problem recurs) check pg_stat_activity and other DB info.