hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> writes:
> friend asked me to setup replication on their machines, and i noticed
> that one of cpus (2 quad xeons) is used to 100%:
> pgsql 58241 99.0 0.2 22456 7432 ?? Rs Thu10AM 1530:35.93 postgres: stats collector process (postgres)
Hmm, we had some problems with the stats collector going nuts a couple
of versions ago; maybe you've found another way to trigger that.
Anything unusual about this DB (lots of tables, for instance)?
Can you try strace and/or gdb to figure out what the collector is doing?
regards, tom lane