From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: rebellious postgres process
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:17:05 -0500
Message-ID: <16117.1225804625@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490FFCF4.2050500@shopzeus.com>
References: <490FFCF4.2050500@shopzeus.com>
Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:
> The processi is using 100% CPU for 52 hours! Here it is:
> %ps axl | grep 677
> 70 677 666 757 107 0 22396 5460 select Rs ?? 3144:50.88
> postgres: stats collector process (postgres)
Huh, that's weird. We've fixed some bugs in the past that led the stats
collector to consume excessive CPU --- but that was all pre-8.3.
Do you have a whole lot of tables in this database? (Or even more
directly: how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat ?)
regards, tom lane
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