On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, bubba postgres <bubba.postgres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have an overloaded DB and I see several IDLE connections that are using > significant CPU.. (Not Idle in transaction) > Why would an idle process be eating so much cpu? Or is it not actually idle? Because there's often a difference in time between when the process is sampled for how hard it's working and the output that says what it's doing. I.e. it was working hard, then when we looked at the part that says what it's doing, it's not idle. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
