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To: Benjamin Minshall <minshall@intellicon.biz>
cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: stats collector process high CPU utilization 
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Comments: In-reply-to Benjamin Minshall <minshall@intellicon.biz>
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:17:56 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Benjamin Minshall <minshall@intellicon.biz> writes:
> Since upgrading to 8.2.3 yesterday, the stats collector process has had 
> very high CPU utilization; it is consuming roughly 80-90% of one CPU. 
> The server seems a lot more sluggish than it was before.  Is this normal 
> operation for 8.2 or something I should look into correcting?

What version did you update from, and what platform is this?

			regards, tom lane