From: Carlos H. Reimer <carlos.reimer@opendb.com.br>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: RES: Context switching
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:44:23 -0200
Message-ID: <PEEPKDFEHHEMKBBFPOOKKEAEDJAA.carlos.reimer@opendb.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611070942.26663.josh@agliodbs.com>
Hi,
I have not seen the iowaits numbers and yes, it is a xeon, four processors.
With the 7.4 version the problem did not exist but I think Tom Lane cleared why this behavior with 8.0 and 8.1 versions in http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-11/msg00050.php
Reimer
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 7 de novembro de 2006 15:42
> Para: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; carlos.reimer@opendb.com.br
> Assunto: Re: [PERFORM] Context switching
>
>
> Carlos,
>
> > We've migrated one of our servers from pg 7.4 to 8.1 and from times to
> > times (4 hours) the server start doing a lot of context
> switching and all
> > transactions become very slow.
> >
> > The average context switching for this server as vmstat shows
> is 1 but when
> > the problem occurs it goes to 250000.
>
> Context Switching is a symptom rather than a cause. What's most likely
> happening is that you have a combined heavy-CPU and heavy-IO
> workload, so you
> have bursts of CPU activity stalled by iowaits.
>
> Can you check the rate of iowaits during the "storm" periods?
>
> Also, is this Xeon? And are you saying that you *didn't* have
> this issue
> under 7.4?
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> PostgreSQL @ Sun
> San Francisco
>
>
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