Re: Stuck spins in current - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Stuck spins in current
Date
Msg-id 28803.984783407@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Stuck spins in current  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM> writes:
>> Got it at spin.c:156 with 50 clients doing inserts into
>> 50 tables (int4, text[1-256 bytes]).
>> -B 16384, -wal_buffers=256 (with default others wal params).

> SpinAcquire() ... but on which lock?

After a little bit of thought I'll bet it's ControlFileLockId.

Likely we shouldn't be using a spinlock at all for that, but the
short-term solution might be a longer timeout for this particular lock.
Alternatively, could we avoid holding that lock while initializing a
new log segment?
        regards, tom lane


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