Hi Tom, Given it's on Windows, any suggestion for how I would get hold of this? (Process Monitor tool perhaps?) Regards, -Brendan -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 29 July 2009 4:13 AM To: Brendan Hill Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Idle processes chewing up CPU? "Brendan Hill" <brendanh@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Using the Process Explorer tool, I've noticed that a child postgres.exe is > chewing up 25% of the CPU usage each (we have two dual-core CPUs, presumably > it's chewing up one core). Using SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity, I located > the process id (#3884), and it showed: > <IDLE> Hmph. When a new command is received, there's some amount of parsing overhead that happens before it changes the status display to not-IDLE, but it shouldn't be minutes' worth. Can you get a stack trace next time that happens? 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
