Re: PG 8.3 and server load - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: PG 8.3 and server load
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Msg-id dcc563d10908190919q3b4e6d29ic2e2e786a7c800c4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PG 8.3 and server load  (Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PG 8.3 and server load  (Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>)
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Phoenix Kiula<phoenix.kiula@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Andy Colson<andy@squeakycode.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Phoenix:  run top again, and hit the '1' key.  It'll show you stats for
>> each
>> cpu.  Is one pegged and the others idle?
>
> top - 10:38:53 up 29 days, 5 min,  1 user,  load average: 64.99, 65.17,
> 65.06
> Tasks: 568 total,   1 running, 537 sleeping,   6 stopped,  24 zombie
> Cpu0  : 17.7% us,  7.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 74.0% id,  0.7% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Cpu1  :  6.3% us,  5.6% sy,  0.0% ni, 84.4% id,  3.6% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Cpu2  :  5.6% us,  5.9% sy,  0.0% ni, 86.8% id,  1.7% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Cpu3  :  5.6% us,  4.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 74.2% id, 16.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:   8310256k total,  8277416k used,    32840k free,    61944k buffers
> Swap:  2096440k total,    16128k used,  2080312k free,  7664224k cached
>

OK, nothing looks odd except, as pointed out, the stopped, zombie and
high load.  The actual amount of stuff running is minimal.

I'm wondering if you've got something causing apache children to crash
and go zombie.  What parts of this setup are compiled by hand?  Are
you sure that you don't have something like apache compiled against
one version of zlib and php-mysql against another?  Not that exact
problem, but it's one of many ways to make a crash prone apache.

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