On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:33, Anjan Dave wrote:
> Is there any way to get a temporary relief from this Context Switching
> storm? Does restarting postmaster help?
>
> It seems that I can recreate the heavy CS with just one SELECT
> statement...and then when multiple such SELECT queries are coming in,
> things just get hosed up until we cancel a bunch of queries...
Is your machine a hyperthreaded one? Some folks have found that turning
off hyper threading helps. I knew it made my servers better behaved in
the past.