Re: [PERFORM] Sudden connection and load average spikes with postgresql 9.3

2015-07-07 Thread eudald_v
Hello guys! I finally got rid of it. It looks that at the end it was all due to transparent_hugepages values. I disabled them and cpu spikes disappeared. I am sorry cause it's something I usually disable on postgresql servers, but I forgot to do so on this one and never thought about it. Thanks

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden connection and load average spikes with postgresql 9.3

2015-07-02 Thread eudald_v
Dear Josh, I'm sorry I didn't write before, but we have been very busy with this issue and, you know, when something goes wrong, the apocalypse comes with it. I've been working on everything you suggested. I used your tables and script and I can give you a sample of it on locked_query_start 2015

Re: [PERFORM] Sudden connection and load average spikes with postgresql 9.3

2015-06-30 Thread eudald_v
Dear Tom, Thanks for your fast approach. First of all, yes, queries seems to take more time to process and they are like queued up (you can even see inserts with status waiting on top/htop). I didn't know about that connection tip, and I will absolutely find a moment to add a pg_pooler to reduce

[PERFORM] Sudden connection and load average spikes with postgresql 9.3

2015-06-30 Thread eudald_v
Hello all, This is my very first message to the Postgresql community, and I really hope you can help me solve the trouble I'm facing. I've an 80 core server (multithread) with close to 500GB RAM. My configuration is: MaxConn: 1500 (was 850) Shared buffers: 188Gb work_mem: 110Mb (was 220Mb) mainte