Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3F9632CA5 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:16:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74688-05 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:15:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from vexbert.mr-paradox.net (vexbert.mr-paradox.net [198.145.180.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2F1632BA9 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:15:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: by vexbert.mr-paradox.net (Postfix, from userid 18391) id 6B2CC845F3; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:15:56 -0700 From: David Kerr To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: PARSE WAITING Message-ID: <20100823221556.GC79389@mr-paradox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.996 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_05=-0.5, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS=1.506, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/269 X-Sequence-Number: 40112 Howdy all, We're doing some performance testing, and when we scaled it our app up to about 250 concurrent users we started seeing a bunch of processes sititng in "PARSE WAITING" state. Can anyone give me insite on what this means? what's the parse waiting for? Thanks Dave