John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Process 20753 was hovering around 60-70% CPU usage for a long time.
> I tried to see what that postmaster was doing, but it appeared to be "idle" > % ps -wwwx -p 20753 > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 20753 pts/3 R 26:59 postgres: postgres pdm 192.168.0.35 idle That seems odd to me too. What PG version is this exactly? If it happens again, please see if you can get a stack trace from the not-so-idle process: $ gdb /path/to/postgres-executable gdb> attach PID-of-process gdb> bt gdb> quit regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])