Re: Occasional giant spikes in CPU load

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)reinvent(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Occasional giant spikes in CPU load
Date: 2010-04-07 23:38:27
Message-ID: 201004071638.27421@hal.medialogik.com
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On Wednesday 07 April 2010, Craig James <craig_james(at)emolecules(dot)com> wrote:
> I thought so too, except that I can't login during the flood. If the
> CPUs were all doing iowaits, logging in should be easy.

Busying out the drives is about the most reliable way to make logging in
very slow (especially, but not only, if it's due to swapping).

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