Yes I did see increase in context switches and CPU migrations at that
point using mpstat.
Regards,
Jignesh
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
>
>> There are no hard failures reported anywhere. Log min durations does
>> show that queries are now slowing down and taking longer.
>> OS is not swapping and also eliminated IO by putting the whole database
>> on /tmp
>>
>
> Hmm. Do you see any evidence of a context swap storm (ie, a drastic
> increase in the context swaps/second reading reported by vmstat)?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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