Hi,
> I just puhsd 8.0.3 to production on Sunday, and haven't had a time to
> really monitor it under load, so I can't tell if it's helped the context
> switch problem yet or not.
Attached is a "vmstat 5" output from one of our machines. This is a dual
Xeon 3,2 Ghz with EM64T and 8 GB RAM, running postgresql 8.0.3 on Debian
Sarge 64bit. Connection count is about 350.
Largest amount of cs per second is nearly 10000 which is high, yes, but
not too high.
Regards,
Bjoern
# vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 0 332004 52 6508160 0 0 28 55 5 9 5 1 94 0
0 0 0 335268 52 6509452 0 0 162 2195 2210 13633 34 7 57 2
2 0 0 303996 52 6510200 0 0 89 151 1909 26634 39 8 52 1
3 0 0 305772 52 6510676 0 0 41 40 1934 45525 54 12 34 0
4 0 0 283700 52 6511900 0 0 122 115 2175 36937 59 13 28 0
2 0 0 283132 52 6512444 0 0 88 137 1965 41128 57 12 31 0
1 0 0 277940 52 6513056 0 0 24 88 1899 47906 47 10 43 0
2 0 0 282404 52 6513668 0 0 54 51 1901 37858 47 9 44 0
3 0 0 283996 52 6514212 0 0 59 1675 2028 33609 49 10 40 1
4 0 0 282372 52 6514892 0 0 86 81 2046 31513 57 9 33 1
3 0 0 279228 52 6515300 0 0 18 88 1876 14465 41 5 54 0
3 0 0 288156 52 6516048 0 0 130 632 1944 25456 45 7 47 1
3 0 0 284884 52 6516592 0 0 66 60 1907 27620 56 8 35 0
3 0 0 279356 52 6516932 0 0 38 97 1950 45386 57 10 33 0
3 0 0 294764 52 6517476 0 0 45 52 1823 27900 40 7 53 0
4 0 0 295348 52 6518020 0 0 78 1352 1938 6048 16 4 79 1
2 0 0 282260 52 6518496 0 0 45 100 1954 14304 47 10 42 0
1 0 0 282708 52 6520196 0 0 288 62 2007 8705 29 6 64 1
4 0 0 292868 52 6520468 0 0 29 983 1829 6634 28 4 68 0
0 1 0 284380 52 6521148 0 0 114 163 2035 7017 23 4 72 1
1 0 0 281572 52 6522032 0 0 102 180 1861 7577 19 4 76 1
2 0 0 286668 52 6522440 0 0 75 150 1870 11185 30 5 65 1
0 0 0 293964 52 6523188 0 0 58 1533 2122 8174 23 5 71 1
1 0 0 287940 52 6523732 0 0 93 127 2001 11732 28 5 66 1
1 0 0 283428 52 6523936 0 0 40 89 1941 6360 20 4 75 0
1 0 0 280492 52 6524752 0 0 110 78 1912 5732 19 3 76 1
0 0 0 275684 52 6525160 0 0 67 55 2025 15541 25 6 69 1
