Luke Lonergan wrote:
>> Currently the load looks like this:
>> Cpu0 : 96.8% us, 1.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.3% id, 0.0% wa,
>> 0.0% hi, 1.0% si
>> Cpu1 : 97.8% us, 1.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.3% id, 0.0% wa,
>> 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
>> Cpu2 : 96.8% us, 2.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.3% id, 0.0% wa,
>> 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
>> Cpu3 : 96.2% us, 3.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.3% id, 0.0% wa,
>> 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
>>
>
> All four CPUs are hammered busy - check "top" and look for runaway
> processes.
>
> - Luke
>
>
>
Yes, the first 463 process are all postgres. In the meanwhile I've done:
Dropped max_connections from 500 to 250 and
Upped shared_buffers = 50000
Without any apparent effect.