Re: Too frequent warnings for wraparound failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Milen A(dot) Radev" <milen(at)securax(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Too frequent warnings for wraparound failure
Date: 2005-03-11 16:40:11
Message-ID: 3233.1110559211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Milen A. Radev" <milen(at)securax(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So you managed to execute about 6000 transactions in those two seconds.
>> Doing what?

> Well that could be the problem - I'm 99.99% positive we do not execute
> so many transactions - may be 30-40 thousand per day and that's only for
> one relatively busy DB. The example database ("xxx1") you've chosen is
> not used at all. As most of the other databases in that cluster.

It doesn't matter --- all the age counts are going up at exactly the
same rate. Somewhere you've got a client that's issuing dummy
transaction starts at an insane rate. Some attention to "top" output
on the server might help identify it ;-)

regards, tom lane

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