Re: Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU
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Msg-id 24680.1118592081@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU  (Jernej Kos <kostko@jweb-network.net>)
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Jernej Kos <kostko@jweb-network.net> writes:
> Well there should be no complex queries executed (there are some huge tables,
> but the queries aren't huge or specially complicated). I tried attaching to
> the process via gdb and the process is executing method:

> HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot()

> The backtrace appears to be useless (too many ??s). Is that of any help ?

It's really hard to see how it could get to HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot()
without being inside a query --- too bad you can't get a more usable
backtrace.  Is it worth recompiling with --enable-debug to investigate
this?

            regards, tom lane

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