Re: sblock state on FreeBSD 6.1

"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:06:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, the stats socket seems like a really good bet to me, since all
>> the backends will be interested in the same socket.  The
>> client-to-backend sockets are only touched by two processes each, so
>> don't seem like big contention sources.

> Do we take specific steps to ensure that we don't block when attempting
> to write to these sockets?

Well, we have the socket set to O_NONBLOCK mode.  Whether that avoids
the problem you're seeing ...

> BTW, this server does have command string logging on, so if this is a
> stats issue that probably made the problem worse.

Can you turn that off for a bit and see if it affects things?
        regards, tom lane