At Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:07:30 -0400, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote in <20190819140730.gh16...@tamriel.snowman.net> > Greetings, > > * Ron (ronljohnso...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 8/19/19 5:40 AM, Shiwangini Shishulkar wrote: > > >We have scheduled postgres full backup on centos 7 machine. DB size is > > >around 66 GB. We observed while backup is running, postmaster CPU % > > >reaches to 90 - 100%,which results very strange behavior: that we are not > > >able to perform any DDL and DML on to the database during the time. > > >Please suggest a way to limit it's CPU utilization or else let us know how > > >we can access the database during the backup window. Please let us know on > > >priority since this is our prod database. > > > > Are you compressing the backup? > > How many threads are you running? > > How many CPUs on your system? > > What version of Postgres? > > ... What are you using to run the backup?
It seems to have been reported as BUG #15961.. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15965-413bf5d18aaef...@postgresql.org > PostgreSQL version: 11.4 > Operating system: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) > pg_dump -U postgres -d wg -f wg.sql regards. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center
