Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know where the do_sigaction is coming from in this particular case. > Manfred Spraul tracked it to a pair of pgsignal calls in libpq. > Commenting out those two calls out virtually eliminates do_sigaction from > the kernel profile for this workload.
Hmm, I suppose those are the ones associated with suppressing SIGPIPE during send(). It looks to me like those should go away in 8.0 if you have compiled with ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY ... exactly how is PG being built in the current round of tests? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html