Derrick Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: >Not sure if anyone else has experienced the below, postgres configs can be >shared if needed, we have a few database servers running on 7.12 and 9 > >We recently noticed some problems with timeouts on some postgres database >servers. The machines don't appear to be heavily loaded, although they are >being used steadily. What we're seeing is that the machine is working fine. No >swapping, load average is below 1, and then it doesn't accept database >connections for about 10-20 seconds, and any queries on active connections >fail to return for that same time period. I tried running these commands in a >screen to get a better sense of the system state when the problem occurs:
What filesystem options are you using for wherever the database files are located ? Are you using wapbl(4) ?
