Re: pgbench stuck with 100% cpu usage

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Subject: Re: pgbench stuck with 100% cpu usage
Date: 2017-09-29 06:48:30
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.20.1709290844380.23406@lancre
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>>> - Run pgbench -c 10 -T 100
>>> - Stop postgres with -m immediate
>>
>> That is a strange test to run, but it would be better if the behavior was
>> not that one.
>
>
> Well, I think it's a very legitimate test, not for testing performance, but
> testing crash recovery and I use it very often.

Ok, interesting. Now I understand your purpose.

You may consider something like "BEGIN; UPDATE ...; \sleep 100 ms;
COMMIT;" so that a crash is most likely to occur with plenty transactions
in progress but without much load.

--
Fabien.

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