[PERFORM] PARSE WAITING

2010-08-23 Thread David Kerr
Howdy all,

We're doing some performance testing, and when we scaled it our app up to about 
250 concurrent users
we started seeing a bunch of processes sititng in PARSE WAITING state.

Can anyone give me insite on what this means? what's the parse waiting for?

Thanks

Dave

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Re: [PERFORM] PARSE WAITING

2010-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from David Kerr's message of lun ago 23 18:15:56 -0400 2010:
 Howdy all,
 
 We're doing some performance testing, and when we scaled it our app up to 
 about 250 concurrent users
 we started seeing a bunch of processes sititng in PARSE WAITING state.
 
 Can anyone give me insite on what this means? what's the parse waiting for?

It means the parse phase is waiting for a lock.  You can see exactly
what it's waiting for by looking at pg_locks WHERE NOT GRANTED.

Have you got lots of partitions, or something?

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Re: [PERFORM] PARSE WAITING

2010-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from David Kerr's message of lun ago 23 18:47:02 -0400 2010:

 unlink(base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.12593) = 0
 unlink(base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.6041) = 0
 unlink(base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.3030) = 0
 unlink(base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp28335.14737) = 0
 
 which isn't the fastest operation.. just for my info, can anyone tell me what
 pgsql_tmp is, and why the engine is wacking each file individually?

These are temp files, which you can remove without concern if the server
is down.

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