Re: Sudden crazy high CPU usage

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org list" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sudden crazy high CPU usage
Date: 2014-03-31 14:50:22
Message-ID: CAOR=d=0aZVO=s7i+dFr98JaWHSARb+AkWT4cHhFBom46sz5mGg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt
<nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com> wrote:
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> Thanks, this seems to persist after a reboot of the server though, and I have never in my server's 3 months life time experienced anything like it.

Could it be overheating and therefore throttling the cores?

Also another thing to look at on large memory machines with > 1 CPU
socket is zone_reclaim_mode being set to 1. Always set it to 0 on a
linux machine running postgres.

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