Re: sblock state on FreeBSD 6.1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sblock state on FreeBSD 6.1
Date: 2006-05-03 17:37:03
Message-ID: 17513.1146677823@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:06:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, the stats socket seems like a really good bet to me, since all
>> the backends will be interested in the same socket. The
>> client-to-backend sockets are only touched by two processes each, so
>> don't seem like big contention sources.

> Do we take specific steps to ensure that we don't block when attempting
> to write to these sockets?

Well, we have the socket set to O_NONBLOCK mode. Whether that avoids
the problem you're seeing ...

> BTW, this server does have command string logging on, so if this is a
> stats issue that probably made the problem worse.

Can you turn that off for a bit and see if it affects things?

regards, tom lane

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