Re: Dynamic LWLock tracing via pg_stat_lwlock (proof of concept)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, ik(at)postgresql-consulting(dot)com, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dynamic LWLock tracing via pg_stat_lwlock (proof of concept)
Date: 2014-10-07 19:42:37
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaDqSvbUB6pOVNUZjqG32W72TAO8nJzzsZ=dMG2Un8q2Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2014-10-07 10:45:24 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > It's not like it'd be significantly different today - in a read mostly
>> > workload that's bottlenecked on ProcArrayLock you'll not see many
>> > waits. There you'd have to count the total number of spinlocks cycles to
>> > measure anything interesting.
>>
>> Hmm, really? I've never had to do that to find bottlenecks.
>
> How did you diagnose procarray contention in a readonly workload
> otherwise, without using perf?

spindelays.

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