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From: Siraj G <[email protected]>
To: Deepak Goel <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DB load balancer
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 11:41:53 +0530
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Hello Deepak

CPU utilization is high, below is just a 1 day utilization graph. We have
been having these more often between 3:30 and 5:30 in the afternoon. This
is a daily pattern and during this the application response goes very slow.

[image: image.png]

Regards
Siraj

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM Deepak Goel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please share what you mean by slow (CPU usage of secondary over time,
> response times of the transactions over time).
>
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM Siraj G <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Experts!
>>
>> We have a multi tenant model DB with a Primary and a Secondary. There are
>> 3x or 4x connections flowing to Secondary as the application is read
>> intensive. Accordingly we have allocated more number of resources to the VM
>> hosting the secondary/replica DB.
>>
>> Spec:-
>> Primary: 48 CPUs, 48GB memory
>> Secondary: 80 CPUs, 128GB memory
>> PG version: 12.22 (we have already started the upgrade process)
>> OS: Ubuntu
>>
>> The problem very frequently we are experiencing is that the CPU load on
>> the SECONDARY is going very very high causing the app slowness. Also,
>> frequently the postgres is crashing due to OOM.
>>
>> I was thinking of these (please give feedback):
>> 1. Have a DB level balancer for the load balancing in the DB level,
>> meaning primary will also receive the READ traffic
>> 2. Add a second REPLICA and configure load balancer for the connection
>> load balancing
>>
>> What do we do for load balancing at the DB level, in postgres?
>>
>> If there are any suggestions, please let me know.
>>
>> Regards
>> Siraj
>>
>


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