On 3/2/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 3/1/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A further report led us to realize that 8.2.x in fact has a nasty bug
>> here: the stats collector is supposed to dump its stats to a file at
>> most every 500 milliseconds, but the code was actually waiting only
>> 500 microseconds :-(. The larger the stats file, the more obvious
>> this problem gets.
> I think this explains the trigger that was blowing up my FC4 box.
I dug in the archives a bit and couldn't find the report you're
referring to?
I was referring to this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01418.php
Even though the fundamental reason was obvious (and btw, I inherited
this server less than two months ago), I was still curious what was
making 8.2 blow up a box that was handling a million tps/hour for over
a year. :-)
merlin
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