Re: cpu throttling

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 09:02, "Bryan Murphy" <bryan(dot)murphy(at)gmail(dot)com> 
wrote:
> My question:  Is there a way I can decrease the priority of a specific
> query, or determine the PID of the process it is running in?  I'd like
> to throw together a quick shell script if at all possible, as right
> now I have to monitor the process manually and we'll have fixed the
> problem long before we have the chance to implement proper database
> clustering.

select procpid from pg_stat_activity  where current_query   
   like '%stored_proc%' and current_query not like '%pg_stat_activity%';

requires stats_command_string to be enabled

I'm surprised your operating system doesn't automatically lower the priority 
of the process, though ..

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