Re: freebsd + postgresql 8.3.3 = 100% of cpu usage on stats collector?

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:04:19 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> 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?

Just in case you're not a FreeBSD expert, it's ktrace on FreeBSD. strace
is the Linux equivalent.

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Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>