Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup blocking all queries

2012-06-06 Thread Lonni J Friedman
I'm still plagued by this. Immediately before starting a basebackup the load on my server is 1.00 or less. Within a few minutes of starting the basebackup, the load climbs steadily to 30+ and anything trying to write to the database just sits for minutes at a time, with overall performance on any

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup blocking all queries

2012-05-22 Thread Lonni J Friedman
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, those queries don't shed any light no the problem. The first two return 0 rows, and the third just returns 12 rows all associated with the query itself, rather than anything else. Any other suggestions? On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup blocking all queries

2012-05-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
Do the queries here help? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 4 server postgresql-9.1.3 cluster (one master doing streaming > replication to 3 hot standby servers).  All of them are running > Fedora-16-