Re: Load spikes on 8.1.11

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:05:33AM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:

> I just ran DROP SCHEMA _<slony schema> CASCADE; and it spiked again, on a
> very low loaded box!!

Ah, well, if slony is involved, then you have possible locking
problems in the database _also_ to contend with, along with the
spinlock problems.  This will for sure cause spikes.

You need to tell us more about what you're doing.  And I bet some of
it belongs on the slony lists.

A
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