Re: Slowness

From: kaido vaikla <kaido(dot)vaikla(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Raj <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slowness
Date: 2026-04-17 07:19:25
Message-ID: CA+427g_WWkt-QcqbOOruG3WEwpkOrhPER51Dp29wd7MoFnVchw@mail.gmail.com
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If "customer says they are facing slowness" then my three first steps
usually are
1) grep "ERROR:\|FATAL:" server.log
2) top. Maybe there is some unexpected process(es). Use a f, to sort by
mem, cpu etc
3) query:
select datname, usename, client_addr, leader_pid, pid, DATE_TRUNC('second',
query_start) query_start, wait_event_type, wait_event, query_id from
pg_stat_activity where xact_start is not NULL order by 6;
and
\watch
And take a look at wait_event_type, wait_event

It gives glance, what is currently going on.

br
Kaido

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