Re: rebellious postgres process

Tom Lane wrote:
> Laszlo Nagy <gandalf(at)shopzeus(dot)com> writes:
>
>> The processi is using 100% CPU for 52 hours! Here it is:
>>
>
>
>> %ps axl | grep 677
>> 70 677 666 757 107 0 22396 5460 select Rs ?? 3144:50.88
>> postgres: stats collector process (postgres)
>>
>
> Huh, that's weird. We've fixed some bugs in the past that led the stats
> collector to consume excessive CPU --- but that was all pre-8.3.
>
My version is 8.3.3. Complied from FreeBSD ports. I just updated my
ports tree and that is the most up to date officially (sup)ported version.

The process is still running:

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
904 pgsql 1 105 0 22396K 5428K CPU1 1 856:13 99.02%
postgres

> Do you have a whole lot of tables in this database?
One database has 140 tables, the other has 62. (There are two other
database instances but they are rarely used.)
> (Or even more directly: how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat ?)
>
-rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 54536 Nov 3 20:11 pgstat.stat

Thanks,

Laszlo