On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:45:58PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-11-21 18:21:16 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Justin Pryzby <pryzby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > As $subject: backends are stuck in startup for minutes at a time. I didn't > > > strace this time, but I believe last time I saw one was waiting in a futex. > > A futex? Hm, that was stock postgres? Yes, from PGDG: [pryzbyj@TS-DB ~]$ rpm -q postgresql10 postgresql10-10.1-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 > How many different databases and roles are you having on that system? postgres=# SELECT COUNT(1) FROM pg_roles ; count | 25 postgres=# SELECT COUNT(1) FROM pg_database; count | 15 > I guess iiiiiii is a sanitized name? Yes > Right. I took this to be referring to something before the current > migration, but I might have overinterpreted things. We never had any issue during the ~2 years running PG96 on this VM, until upgrading Monday to PG10.1, and we've now hit it 5+ times. BTW this is a VM run on a hypervisor managed by our customer: DMI: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 06/22/2012 Linux TS-DB 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Justin