"Milen A. Radev" <milen@securax.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So you managed to execute about 6000 transactions in those two seconds.
>> Doing what?
> Well that could be the problem - I'm 99.99% positive we do not execute
> so many transactions - may be 30-40 thousand per day and that's only for
> one relatively busy DB. The example database ("xxx1") you've chosen is
> not used at all. As most of the other databases in that cluster.
It doesn't matter --- all the age counts are going up at exactly the
same rate. Somewhere you've got a client that's issuing dummy
transaction starts at an insane rate. Some attention to "top" output
on the server might help identify it ;-)
regards, tom lane