On 01/29/2018 03:06 PM, Jan De Moerloose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the following to detect long running queries in a webapp that
> is high on cpu:
>
> SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(),query_start) as age, usename, query,
> state from pg_stat_activity order by age;
I would add WHERE state = 'active'
>
> When the cpu is 100% and the app slowing down, i can see that some
> queries have a long age.
> Running the same queries in psql is very fast, however. The db itself is
> low on cpu.
>
> Is the age value as i calculate it representing the time spent by the
> database to execute the query or does it also include the time to read
> the result ? In other words, if the client is starving on cpu, will i
> see higher values of age ?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
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