hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > hi > had strange situation today. > very high load, cpu saturated (and this machine has lots of cores). > i straced one of backends that was using lots of cpu (it was doing some > select, but I don't know what as i wasn't able to start psql). > strace looked like this: > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout) > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout) > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout) > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout) That suggests a lot of contention for a spinlock, but without any information about what the system was really doing, it's hard to go further than that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general