Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: >> Here's one to add to the list: running pgbench with a moderately heavy >> load on an SMP box likes to trigger a state where the database (or >> pgbench) just stops doing work (CPU usage drops to nothing, as does disk >> activity).
> Well, this sounds like a dead-lock, the obvious step would be to > attached gdb to both and get a stack-trace... Yeah, I wonder if it's related to that apparent bug Qingqing saw in the windows semaphore code? It's clearly windows-specific since no one's ever reported any such thing on Unixen. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster