Re: Possible Bug: high CPU usage for stats collector in 8.2

On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> Darcy Buskermolen <darcyb@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I'm observing high CPU usage (95%) of a 2.6GHz opteron by the stats
> > collector on an 8.2.3 box  investigation has lead me to belive that the
> > stats file is written a lot more often that once every 500ms  the
> > following shows this behavior.
>
> Looks like someone broke the usage of PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL between 8.1
> and 8.2 ... it's waiting 500 microseconds, not the intended 500
> milliseconds.

I can confirm that rev 1.140.2.3 of pgstat.c does fix this issue.

The stats collector CPU usage has dropped from inexcess of 95% to 5%

Thanks.

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