I've been running Postgresql 7.4.1 for a couple weeks after upgrading
from 7.2. I noticed today that the postmaster had been using 99% of
the dual CPUs (on a PowerEdge 2650) non-stop for the last couple days.
I stopped all the clients, and it didn't abate---even with no
connections---so I restarte
>Since the postmaster is a single unthreaded process, it's quite
>impossible for it to take up 100% of two CPUs. Could you be more
>precise about which processes were eating CPU, and what they were
>doing according to the available state data? (ps auxww and
>pg_stat_activity can be helpful tools.
