Re: What is postmaster doing?

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:44 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
>> 23425 postgres  20   0 22008  10m  10m R 99.9  0.5  21:45.87 postmaster
>>
>> I'd like to figure out what it is doing. How can I figure out what
>> statement causes the problem?

> It seems strange that the postmaster is eating 99% cpu. Is there a
> chance that it's flooded with connection attempts?

It's probably a backend process, not the postmaster --- I suspect the
OP is using a version of ps that only tells you the original process
name by default.  "ps auxww" or "ps -ef" (depending on platform)
is likely to be more informative.  Looking into pg_stat_activity,
even more so.

            regards, tom lane