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From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: eudald_v <reaven.galaeindael@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Sudden connection and load average spikes with postgresql 9.3
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 21:13:47 +0000 (UTC)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 08:41 AM, eudald_v wrote:

>> And this is how it looks like when the spike happens:
>> [system CPU staying over 90%]

> I think you have a driver, kernel, Linux memory management, or IO
> stack issue.

In my experience this is usually caused by failure to disable
transparent huge page support.  The larger shared_buffers is
configured, the bigger the problem.

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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