2010/1/29 Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com>: > I just found a few of these errors in a log file during some pgbench testing > tonight. Linux, recent CVS HEAD; given the range of systems and versions > this has been reported against now, this bug doesn't look like a platform or > version/build specific issue. > > Unfortunately the instance I had up wasn't setup very well for logging, but I > did notice that all of the ones I saw had nearby messages about autovacuum > issues, which seems to match Tom's earlier suggestion at > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-07/msg00083.php that the > source of the warning (but not necessarily the underlying problem) for these > is the autovacuum launcher complaining; here's two different sets: > > ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > CONTEXT: automatic analyze of table "pgbench.public.pgbench_accounts" > WARNING: pgstat wait timeout > WARNING: pgstat wait timeout > ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > CONTEXT: automatic analyze of table "pgbench.public.pgbench_accounts" > > WARNING: pgstat wait timeout > ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > CONTEXT: automatic analyze of table "pgbench.public.pgbench_accounts" > ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > CONTEXT: automatic analyze of table "pgbench.public.pgbench_accounts" > > Because of what I'm (not) seeing in pg_stat_bgwriter, I'm suspicious that its > underlying work or messages may be involved here. I'm not seeing the sort of > totals I expect in that view after these large bouts of activity. Now, my > use tonight has included the new pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter') to clear > out those stats between runs, so perhaps that's involved too. Guessing not > only because of the reports going back to 8.4 that also have this error > message. > > Will keep an eye out for this one now that I know I might run into it, have > already cranked up the logging and will look for something reproducible to > gather more info.
I've seen this happen semi-frequently during initdb on win32 on an Amazon EC2 image. I attributed it to the combination of windows and overloaded virtualization, but it may just be that it shows up more often there. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
