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

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:

> 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.
>
Any guess on when we'd see an 8.2.4?  I have a business reason for asking.

Thanks!

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