Re: Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Bresnahan
Subject Re: Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization
Date
Msg-id loom.20100128T002542-245@post.gmane.org
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In response to Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization  (Mike Bresnahan <mike.bresnahan@bestbuy.com>)
List pgsql-general
> Could you try this again with "top -c", which will label these
> postmaster processes usefully, and include the pgbench client itself in
> what you post?  It's hard to sort out what's going on in these
> situations without that style of breakdown.

I had run pgbench on a separate instance last time, but this time I ran it on
the same machine. With the -c option, top(1) reports that many of the postgres
processes are idle.

top - 18:25:23 up 8 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.52, 1.32, 0.55
Tasks: 218 total,  15 running, 203 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 32.3%us, 17.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.6%st
Mem:   7358492k total,  1620500k used,  5737992k free,    11144k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1248388k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND


 1323 postgres  20   0 50364 2192 1544 R 56.7  0.0   0:03.19 pgbench -S -c 16 -T
30

 1337 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m R 25.4  1.6   0:01.35 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1331 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 111m R 24.4  1.6   0:01.16 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1335 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m R 24.1  1.6   0:01.30 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1340 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 112m R 22.7  1.6   0:01.28 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1327 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 113m R 22.1  1.6   0:01.26 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1328 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 113m R 21.8  1.6   0:01.32 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1332 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m R 21.8  1.6   0:01.11 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1326 postgres  20   0  197m 112m 110m R 21.4  1.6   0:01.10 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1325 postgres  20   0  197m 112m 110m R 20.8  1.6   0:01.28 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1330 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 111m R 20.4  1.6   0:01.21 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1339 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 111m R 20.4  1.6   0:01.10 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1333 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m S 20.1  1.6   0:01.08 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1336 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 111m S 19.8  1.6   0:01.10 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1329 postgres  20   0  197m 113m 111m S 19.1  1.6   0:01.21 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1338 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m R 19.1  1.6   0:01.28 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] SELECT

 1334 postgres  20   0  197m 114m 112m R 18.8  1.6   0:01.00 postgres: postgres
postgres [local] idle

 1214 root      20   0 14900 1348  944 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.41 top -c







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