Re: postgres processes spending most of their time in the

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
> > strace unfortunately doesn't deref the sembuf structure in semop.
>
> Right, but the PC would be enough to let us tell whether semop was being
> called from IpcSemaphoreLock or IpcSemaphoreUnlock.
>
> However, if the info isn't available then no use crying over it. What
> we'll need to do instead is add some debugging printouts to lwlock.c,
> and hope that the extra logfile I/O calls don't change the timing enough
> to hide the misbehavior. I'll think a little about this and send you
> an updated lwlock.c to try out.

Is there any use in frobbing these frobs?

#
# Lock Tracing
#
#trace_notify = false
#ifdef LOCK_DEBUG
#trace_locks = false
#trace_userlocks = false
#trace_lwlocks = false
#debug_deadlocks = false
#trace_lock_oidmin = 16384
#trace_lock_table = 0
#endif

-jwb