hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > friend asked me to setup replication on their machines, and i noticed > that one of cpus (2 quad xeons) is used to 100%: > pgsql 58241 99.0 0.2 22456 7432 ?? Rs Thu10AM 1530:35.93 postgres: stats collector process (postgres) Hmm, we had some problems with the stats collector going nuts a couple of versions ago; maybe you've found another way to trigger that. Anything unusual about this DB (lots of tables, for instance)? Can you try strace and/or gdb to figure out what the collector is doing? regards, tom lane