On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:05:33AM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> I just ran DROP SCHEMA _<slony schema> CASCADE; and it spiked again, on a
> very low loaded box!!
Ah, well, if slony is involved, then you have possible locking
problems in the database _also_ to contend with, along with the
spinlock problems. This will for sure cause spikes.
You need to tell us more about what you're doing. And I bet some of
it belongs on the slony lists.
A
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