Sorry, I introduced this bug.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Benjamin Minshall <minshall@intellicon.biz> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It's sounding like what you had was just transient bloat, in which case
> >> it might be useful to inquire whether anything out-of-the-ordinary had
> >> been done to the database right before the excessive-CPU-usage problem
> >> started.
>
> > I don't believe that there was any unusual activity on the server, but I
> > have set up some more detailed logging to hopefully identify a pattern
> > if the problem resurfaces.
>
> A further report led us to realize that 8.2.x in fact has a nasty bug
> here: the stats collector is supposed to dump its stats to a file at
> most every 500 milliseconds, but the code was actually waiting only
> 500 microseconds :-(. The larger the stats file, the more obvious
> this problem gets.
>
> If you want to patch this before 8.2.4, try this...
>
> Index: pgstat.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.140.2.2
> diff -c -r1.140.2.2 pgstat.c
> *** pgstat.c 26 Jan 2007 20:07:01 -0000 1.140.2.2
> --- pgstat.c 1 Mar 2007 20:04:50 -0000
> ***************
> *** 1689,1695 ****
> /* Preset the delay between status file writes */
> MemSet(&write_timeout, 0, sizeof(struct itimerval));
> write_timeout.it_value.tv_sec = PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL / 1000;
> ! write_timeout.it_value.tv_usec = PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL % 1000;
>
> /*
> * Read in an existing statistics stats file or initialize the stats to
> --- 1689,1695 ----
> /* Preset the delay between status file writes */
> MemSet(&write_timeout, 0, sizeof(struct itimerval));
> write_timeout.it_value.tv_sec = PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL / 1000;
> ! write_timeout.it_value.tv_usec = (PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL % 1000) * 1000;
>
> /*
> * Read in an existing statistics stats file or initialize the stats to
>
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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