Re: statistics collector process is thrashing my cpu

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "William Temperley" <willtemperley(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: statistics collector process is thrashing my cpu
Date: 2008-05-27 08:35:16
Message-ID: 20080527103516.0bdaa25b@mha-laptop.hagander.net
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William Temperley wrote:
> >
> > Actually, that does not mean it's broken. It just says it can't find
> > symbols for where it was - but if this was in ntdll, that's fine. If
> > you bring up the full stacktrace at this point, does it contain
> > proper data?
> >
> > //Magnus
>
>
> Mystery solved, it was PCTools antivirus causing the problem.
> It seems pctlsp.dll was interfering when the stats collector process -
> Prolonged stepping into the hung process showed pctlsp.dll popping
> its head up now and then, and absolutely no postgres code was run at
> all. It was all happening within ntdll!LdrShutdownThread.
>
> Uninstalling PCTools solved the problem and restored my faith in
> Postgres!

Ah, thanks for letting us know.

//Magnus

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