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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Occasional giant spikes in CPU load
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:01:40 -0700
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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:50 -0700, Craig James wrote:
> I'm reviving this question because I never figured it out.  To summarize: At random intervals anywhere from a few times per hour to once or twice a day, we see a huge spike in CPU load that essentially brings the system to a halt for up to a minute or two.  Previous answers focused on "what is it doing", i.e. is it really Postgres or something else?
> 
> Now the question has narrowed down to this: what could trigger EVERY postgres backend to do something at the same time?  See the attached output from "top -b", which shows what is happening during one of the CPU spikes.

checkpoint causing IO Wait.

What does sar say about these times?

Joshua D. Drake


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