[pgpool-general: 1538] Re: Mysterious Load Spikes

[Will Ferguson]

Have a look in the postgres performance mailing lists. There's been a 
lot of chatter recently about performance problems regarding 3.x kernels.

Will

On 27/03/13 15:24, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com 
> <mailto:netllama at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     FWIW, I also see roughly the same behavior, although my environment is
>     somewhat different than yours.  Previously my pgpool server was
>     running on RHEL6, however it was migrated to Fedora17 (without
>     changing the pgpool version).  Before the migration the load on the
>     server was typically less than 1.00.  Since migrating the load average
>     is 30+ (with spikes up to 60 quite often).  Yet there's nothing
>     obvious causing the load.  I'm certain something in pgpool is causing
>     this behavior, because the load drops to 0 during the rare times when
>     we need to stop pgpool for maintenance.
>
>
> Thanks for the quick reply Lonni. I'm glad to hear that it's not a 
> problem limited to Ubuntu. Like you I suspect it has something to do 
> with the 3.x kernel series. I'm going to be doing some experimentation 
> soon to try to isolate and eliminate this problem. I'll update this 
> thread with my findings.
>
> If anyone else is interested in coordinating efforts, I'd be glad for 
> the help.
>
> QH
>
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