Hi,
check your hardware (especially harddrive) for errors.
regards
Thomas
Henry schrieb:
>
> Greets,
>
> Pg: 8.3.7
>
> I'm trying to diagnose why I cannot login to Pg on occasion. The psql
> command will just hang (so I cannot get in to see what it's doing) and
> a telnet into 5432 will give the usual:
>
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> indicating the backend accepting the connection, but not proceeding.
>
> The number of connections at the time are small, file descriptor usage
> will be small, etc, server load low.
>
> It will then spontaneously recover as if it's just completed doing
> something IO intensive.
>
> My config:
>
> listen_addresses = '1.2.1.1,127.0.0.1'
> port = 5432
> max_connections = 2048
> shared_buffers = 520MB
> temp_buffers = 128MB
> work_mem = 1512MB
> max_fsm_pages = 512000
> fsync = off
> checkpoint_segments = 32
> effective_cache_size = 512MB
> constraint_exclusion = on
> logging_collector = on
> track_counts = on
> autovacuum = on
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 2000000000
>
> I'm rerunning things with statement logging turned on to get a clue.
> Incidentally, I did have to reindex the system tables in single-user
> mode (got a "Cannot find namespace 0" error at some point).
>
> Anyone have an idea what this strange connectivity-delay could be about?
>
> Cheers
> Henry
