Re: [PERFORM] Context switch storm

2006-11-03 Thread creimer
> If you can keep your numbers of clients down below the critical > level, > you should find the overall workload is fine.   We have at about 600 connections. Is this a case to use a connection pool (pg_pool) system?   And why this happens only with 8.0 and 8.1 and not with the 7.4?    

[PERFORM] Context switch storm

2006-11-03 Thread creimer
Hi,   We've migrated one of our servers from pg 7.4 to 8.1 and from times to times (4 hours) the server start doing a lot of context switching and all transactions become very slow.   The average context switching for this server as vmstat shows is 1 but when the problem occurs it goes to 25.