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From Devinder K Rajput
Subject performance question
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Msg-id OF33F922A1.8CC71E18-ON86256C98.005FE9E2@ipaper.com
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Hi all,

I am running a query and getting the following output in the log:

2002-12-23 10:25:20 DEBUG:  ProcessQuery
2002-12-23 10:25:20 DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
2002-12-23 10:25:20 DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
2002-12-23 10:25:20 DEBUG:  query: fetch 1000 from my_cursor
2002-12-23 10:25:20 DEBUG:  ProcessUtility: fetch 1000 from my_cursor
2002-12-23 10:30:10 DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:30:10 DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:30:10 DEBUG:  exit(0)
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 16940 exited with status 0
2002-12-23 10:35:10 DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:35:10 DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:35:10 DEBUG:  exit(0)
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 16947 exited with status 0
2002-12-23 10:40:10 DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:40:10 DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
2002-12-23 10:40:10 DEBUG:  exit(0)
/usr/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 16967 exited with status 0

The last five lines repeat again and again exactly every five minutes.  postmaster is using up to 90% of the CPU at times and is staying above 70% for most of the time.  I looked in the database directory, "/dioh/DIOH_db/data/base/18722" and there have been no file changes since this query started.

system info:
OS: Red Hat 7.2
Kernal : 2.4.7-10smp
pg: 7.1

Any ideas?

TIA

Devinder Rajput
Stores Division Corporate Offices
Chicago, IL
(773) 442-6474

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