Hi All,
I seem to have a problem with postgresql 7.4.2 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES3. I am running an application server over a database in which tables contains at most a few thousands of records. The problematic table, however, contains 67 records, with an application daemon updating all those records every 30 seconds.
Everything looks fine as the application goes up, however as it keeps running, after 1-1.5 days the postgresql connections start consuming 100% of the machine's CPU in kernel mode. When I come to this point, restart of postgresql, the application and even the entire machine does not help, as it continues to consume 100% of the CPU immediately after going up. Nevertheless, I have negated hardware issues/ application bug as I discovered that when creating a dump of all application data using the pg_dump utility, then recreating the database using dropdb and createdb and finally restoring from the dump, I manage to return to the start point, i.e. everything works fine and I gain more 1-1.5 days of work.
Can anyone have an idea of what I should do to avoid recreating the DB every day?
Thanks in Advance.