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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: postmaster in a tight loop
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Msg-id 20080212144609.GE14683@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to postmaster in a tight loop  (Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>)
Responses Re: postmaster in a tight loop  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Dan Langille wrote:

> Looking at ktrace output, I saw a lot of this:
>
> 1172 postgres CALL  kse_release(0xbfbfd500)
> 1172 postgres RET   kse_release -1 errno 22 Invalid argument

Humm, kse_release seems related to multithreading.  Or so says
http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/FreeBSD/kse_release.2.html

I find it a bit worrying that the postmaster is calling that syscall at
all.

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