Re: rebellious postgres process - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: rebellious postgres process
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Msg-id 16117.1225804625@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to rebellious postgres process  (Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>)
Responses Re: rebellious postgres process  (Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>)
Re: rebellious postgres process  (Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>)
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Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:
> The processi is using 100% CPU for 52 hours! Here it is:

> %ps axl | grep 677
>   70   677   666 757 107  0 22396  5460 select Rs    ??  3144:50.88
> postgres: stats collector process    (postgres)

Huh, that's weird.  We've fixed some bugs in the past that led the stats
collector to consume excessive CPU --- but that was all pre-8.3.

Do you have a whole lot of tables in this database?  (Or even more
directly: how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat ?)

            regards, tom lane

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