On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:38:51PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: - David Kerr <dmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: - > Looks like it was a query that was running. once my developer killed it the CPU went back down. - > I'm a little surprised by that, the backend process for that developer wasn't taking up a lot of CPU, - > just the postmaster itself. - - The backtrace you showed was most definitely from a backend, not the - postmaster. I think you misidentified the process. On some platforms - "ps" isn't tremendously helpful about telling them apart ... - - regards, tom lane - wow, hmm, if i can't trust linux ps, what can i trust! <cries> =) Thanks. that would clear it up. Dave -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general