On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We have had several customers running postgres on bigger machines report
> problems on busy systems. Most recently one where a fully cached
> workload completely stalled in s_lock()s due to the *shared* lwlock
> acquisition in BufferAlloc() around the buffer partition lock.
That's unfortunate. I saw someone complain about what sounds like
exactly the same issue on Twitter yesterday:
https://twitter.com/Roguelazer/status/382706273927446528
I tried to engage with him, but was unsuccessful.
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Peter Geoghegan