Re: Linux/PostgreSQL scalability issue - problem with 8 cores

Jakub Ouhrabka <kuba(at)comgate(dot)cz> writes:
> We've tried several times to get stacktrace from some of the running
> backends during spikes, we got always this:

> 0x00002b005d00a9a9 in semop () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #0 0x00002b005d00a9a9 in semop () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x000000000054fe53 in PGSemaphoreLock (sema=0x2b00a04e5090,
> interruptOK=0 '\0') at pg_sema.c:411
> #2 0x0000000000575d95 in LWLockAcquire (lockid=SInvalLock,
> mode=LW_EXCLUSIVE) at lwlock.c:455
> #3 0x000000000056fbfe in ReceiveSharedInvalidMessages
> (invalFunction=0x5e9a30 <LocalExecuteInvalidationMessage>,
> resetFunction=0x5e9df0 <InvalidateSystemCaches>) at sinval.c:159
> #4 0x0000000000463505 in StartTransactionCommand () at xact.c:1439
> #5 0x000000000056fa4b in ProcessCatchupEvent () at sinval.c:347
> #6 0x000000000056fb20 in CatchupInterruptHandler
> (postgres_signal_arg=<value optimized out>) at sinval.c:221

CatchupInterruptHandler, eh? That seems to let NOTIFY off the hook, and
instead points in the direction of sinval processing; which is to say,
propagation of changes to system catalogs. Does your app create and
destroy a tremendous number of temp tables, or anything else in the way
of frequent DDL commands?

regards, tom lane