Re: User concurrency thresholding: where do I look?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jignesh K(dot) Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: User concurrency thresholding: where do I look?
Date: 2007-07-20 19:13:13
Message-ID: 12445.1184958793@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jignesh K. Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> Yes I did see increase in context switches and CPU migrations at that
> point using mpstat.

So follow that up --- try to determine which lock is being contended
for. There's some very crude code in the sources that you can enable
with -DLWLOCK_STATS, but probably DTrace would be a better tool.

regards, tom lane

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