From: Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
To: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Determining server load from client
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:47:30 -0600
Message-ID: <460080A2.20800@drivefaster.net> (raw)
I've found that it would be helpful to be able to tell how busy my
dedicated PG server is ( Linux 2.6 kernel, v8.0.3 currently ) before
pounding it with some OLAP-type queries. Specifically, I have a
multi-threaded client program that needs to run several thousand
sequential queries. I broke it into threads to take advantage of the
multi-core architecture of the server hardware. It would be very nice
if I could check the load of the server at certain intervals to throttle
the number of concurrent queries and mitigate load problems when other
processes might be already inducing a significant load.
I have seen some other nice back-end things exposed through PG functions
( e.g. database size on disk ) and wondered if there was anything
applicable to this. Even if it can't return the load average proper, is
there anything else in the pg_* tables that might give me a clue how
"busy" the server is for a period of time?
I've thought about allowing an ssh login without a keyphrase to log in
and capture it. But, the client process is running as an apache user.
Giving the apache user a shell login to the DB box does not seem like a
smart idea for obvious security reasons...
So far, that's all I can come up with, other than a dedicated socket
server daemon on the DB machine to do it.
Any creative ideas are welcomed :)
Thanks
-Dan
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