From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Jakub Ouhrabka <kuba@comgate.cz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Linux/PostgreSQL scalability issue - problem with 8 cores
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:12:34 -0300
Message-ID: <20080107151234.GG4723@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4782063C.7070105@comgate.cz>
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Jakub Ouhrabka wrote:
> We've tried several times to get stacktrace from some of the running
> backends during spikes, we got always this:
>
> 0x00002b005d00a9a9 in semop () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #0 0x00002b005d00a9a9 in semop () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x000000000054fe53 in PGSemaphoreLock (sema=0x2b00a04e5090,
> interruptOK=0 '\0') at pg_sema.c:411
> #2 0x0000000000575d95 in LWLockAcquire (lockid=SInvalLock,
> mode=LW_EXCLUSIVE) at lwlock.c:455
> #3 0x000000000056fbfe in ReceiveSharedInvalidMessages
> (invalFunction=0x5e9a30 <LocalExecuteInvalidationMessage>,
> resetFunction=0x5e9df0 <InvalidateSystemCaches>) at sinval.c:159
> #4 0x0000000000463505 in StartTransactionCommand () at xact.c:1439
> #5 0x000000000056fa4b in ProcessCatchupEvent () at sinval.c:347
> #6 0x000000000056fb20 in CatchupInterruptHandler
> (postgres_signal_arg=<value optimized out>) at sinval.c:221
> #7 0x00002b005cf6f110 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #8 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Perhaps it would make sense to try to take the "fast path" in
SIDelExpiredDataEntries with only a shared lock rather than exclusive.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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