From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jignesh K. Shah <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Subject: Re: User concurrency thresholding: where do I look?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:13:13 -0400
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"Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
> Yes I did see increase in context switches and CPU migrations at that
> point using mpstat.
So follow that up --- try to determine which lock is being contended
for. There's some very crude code in the sources that you can enable
with -DLWLOCK_STATS, but probably DTrace would be a better tool.
regards, tom lane
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