> Fairly sure, when it is happening, postgres usually is taking up the top slots > for cpu usage as reported by top. Perhaps there is a better way to monitor > this?
Given the intermittent nature of the problem and its relative brevity (5-10 seconds), I don't know whether top offers the granularity needed to locate the bottleneck. > likely you have a situation where something else is happening which blocks > the current thread. It happens on my development system, and I'm the only one on it. I know I've seen it on the production server, but I think it is a bit more common on the development server, though that may be a case of which system I spend the most time on. (Also, the production server is 1300 miles away with a DSL connection, so I may just be seeing network delays some of the time there.) > Both of these were triggered by users double clicking links in our > web app and were fixed by a better implementation. Perhaps something like > that is causing what you are seeing. My web app traps double-clicks in javascript and ignores all but the first one. That's because some of the users have mice that give double-clicks even when they only want one click. -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match