High Context-Switches on Linux 8.1.4 Server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Donald C. Sumbry ][
Subject High Context-Switches on Linux 8.1.4 Server
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Msg-id 44D6EDFA.4030802@revver.com
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Responses Re: High Context-Switches on Linux 8.1.4 Server  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Postgres 8.1.4
Slony 1.1.5
Linux manny 2.6.12-10-k7-smp #1 SMP Fri Apr 28 14:17:26 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux

We're seeing an average of 30,000 context-switches a sec.  This problem
was much worse w/8.0 and got bearable with 8.1 but slowly resurfaced.
Any ideas?

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy
id wa
 8  2      0 392184  40248 3040628    0    0 10012  2300 3371 43436 60
25 11  4
10  2      0 334772  40256 3043340    0    0  2672  1892 3252 10073 84
14  1  1
 9  2      0 338492  40280 3051272    0    0  7960  1612 3548 22013 77
16  4  3
11  2      0 317040  40304 3064576    0    0 13172  1616 3870 42729 61
21 11  7
 7  0      0 291496  40320 3078704    0    0 14192   504 3139 52200 58
24 12  7

The machine has 4 gigs of RAM, shared_buffers = 32768, max_connections =
400, and currently does around 300-500 queries a second.  I can provide
more info if needed.

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Sumbry][


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