On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 2015-01-14 10:05:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >> What are the autovac processes doing (according to pg_stat_activity)? >> >> > pid,running,waiting,query >> > 7105,00:28:40.789221,f,autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE pg_catalog.pg_class > > It'd be interesting to know whether that vacuum gets very frequent > semaphore wakeups. Could you strace it for a second or three?
for 30 seconds+ it just looks like this: mmoncure@mernix2 ~ $ sudo strace -p 7105 Process 7105 attached semop(5701638, {{4, -1, 0}}, 1 all of other processes are yielding out of the spinlock, for example: select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1408}) = 0 (Timeout) > How did this perform < 9.4? this is a new project. However, I can run it vs earlier version. Can you guess how many times these dynamic > statements are planned? How many different relations are accessed in the > dynamically planned queries? only once or twice, and only a couple of tables. This is an operation that should only take few seconds (inserting a few 10s of thousands of rows), that has blocked for many hours now. Usually it runs through taking a few seconds. This is either a deadlock or a deadlock emulating sequence of operations. I'll try to pull commits that Peter suggested and see if that helps (I'm getting ready to bring the database down). I can send the code off-list if you guys think it'd help. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers