Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> FWIW, getting turning off stats_command_string substantially reduced
> this contention, so it appears the issue is somewhere in the stats code.
> This code sends stats messages to a different process via a socket (or
> is it UDP?), with the intention that if the system gets heavily loaded
> we'll lose some stats in the interest of not bogging down all the
> backends. It seems that doesn't work so hot on FreeBSD. :(
I am working on a patch for 8.2 to fix that for all platforms.
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