Re: many sessions waiting DataFileRead and extend - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: many sessions waiting DataFileRead and extend
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Msg-id fa9bda2e74987d819fc99bfc8533cc349e50dc03.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: many sessions waiting DataFileRead and extend  (James Pang <jamespang886@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: many sessions waiting DataFileRead and extend
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On Thu, 2025-06-26 at 10:32 +0800, James Pang wrote:
> thans for you suggestions, we have iowait from sar command too, copy here, checking with infra team not found
abnormalIO activities either.   
> 02:00:01 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest  %gnice   %idle
> 02:00:03 PM  all   15.92    0.00   43.02    0.65    0.76    2.56    0.00    0.00    0.00   37.09

Crazy high system time.

If it is not transparent hugepages, the other suspect is fork().
Turn on "log_connections" for a minute or two and see if there are lots
of connections established.  That can easily use your CPU.

Other than that, I am out of guesses.

> Frits Hoogland <frits.hoogland@gmail.com> 於 2025年6月25日週三 下午10:27寫道:
> > > On 25 Jun 2025, at 07:59, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > Run "sar -P all 1" and see if "%iowait" is high.
> >
> > I would (strongly) advise against the use of iowait as an indicator.

I have heard that before, and I am sure you are right.

I grant that if it is low, it may just mean that the CPU is under load.
But if %iowait is high, my experience is that that indicates an I/O problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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