Re: Puzzling full database lock

* Christopher Opena:

> We've been running into some very strange issues of late with our
> PostgreSQL database(s).  We have an issue where a couple of queries push
> high CPU on a few of our processors and the entire database locks (reads,
> writes, console cannot be achieved unless the high CPU query procs are
> killed).

Does the kernel log something?  Does "dmesg" display anything
illuminating?

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