Re: postgres processes spending most of their time in the kernel

"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
>> It sounds like you have a build that's using SysV semaphores in place of
>> test-and-set instructions.  That should not happen on x86 hardware,
>> since we have assembly TAS code for x86.  Please look at your port
>> header file (src/include/pg_config_os.h symlink) and
>> src/include/storage/s_lock.h to figure out why it's misbuilt.

> Well, it seems that one of __i386__ or __GNUC__ isn't set at compile time.
> I'm using GCC on i386 so I don't see how that is possible.

I don't either.

> It should be
> safe for me to simply define these two things in pg_config.h, I suspect.

That is not a solution.  If it's broken for you then it's likely to be
broken for other people.  We need to figure out what went wrong and
provide a permanent fix.

What gcc version are you running, exactly, and what symbols does it
predefine?  (I seem to recall that there's a way to find that out,
though I'm not recalling how at the moment.  Anyone?)

            regards, tom lane