Re: Puzzling full database lock

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Christopher Opena <counterveil(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Puzzling full database lock
Date: 2012-02-02 14:11:55
Message-ID: 82obth2ul0.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Christopher Opena:

> We've been running into some very strange issues of late with our
> PostgreSQL database(s). We have an issue where a couple of queries push
> high CPU on a few of our processors and the entire database locks (reads,
> writes, console cannot be achieved unless the high CPU query procs are
> killed).

Does the kernel log something? Does "dmesg" display anything
illuminating?

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