Re: statement stuck when the connection grew up to 45 or more

Was the box swapping during this time?
No.

Spec for the machine:
AMD Opteron 2.4Ghz
4GB RAM
120G hard disk





               
                      "Jim C. Nasby"
               
                      <jnasby@pervasive        To:       kah_hang_ang@toray.com.my
               
                      .com>                    cc:       Jan Cruz <malebug@gmail.com>, Qingqing Zhou
<zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>,          
                                                pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
               
                      06/10/2006 01:33         Subject:  Re: [BUGS] statement stuck when the connection grew up to 45
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:29:08PM +0800, kah_hang_ang@toray.com.my wrote:
> I had check using ps -auxw|grep postgres & using select * from
> pg_stat_activity
> and it shows that the is really running and use 99% of the CPU.
>
> Is there any wrong with the query?
> As suggested by Jan Cruz, it is to fine tune the performance of the
query.
> Even if I not fine tune the query it should able to run without problem.
>
> What I not understand is why this query stuck when the connection growth
up
> to certain limit.
>
> I did try execute the query with the connection more than 45 and it
really
> stuck there.
> I wait for around 10 minutes but it still running.

Was the box swapping during this time? What are the specs on the
machine?

> I kill about 10 connections then the query start to run and finish within
> 30 sec.
>
> May I know what will be the possible cause of this problem?
>
> Regards,
> KH Ang
>
>
>
>

>                       "Jan Cruz"

>                       <malebug@gmail.com>         To:       "Qingqing
Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
>                       Sent by:                    cc:
pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org

>                       pgsql-bugs-owner@pos        Subject:  Re: [BUGS]
statement stuck when the connection grew up to 45 or more
>                       tgresql.org

>

>

>                       06/02/2006 03:08 PM

>

>

>
>
>
>
> This is the statement which having problem:
>      select count(distinct empno) as counter1 from pay_master_history
>            where empno in (select empno from pay_batch_basic_history
where
> organizationid like '015003%')
>      and processyear = '2006'
>      and processmonth = '05'
>      and processbatch = '1'
>
> SELECT COUNT (*) FROM (
> SELECT empno as counter1 from pay_master_history as a
> INNER JOIN (select empno from pay_batch_basic_history where
organizationid
> like '015003%'      and processyear = '2006'
>      and processmonth = '05'
>      and processbatch = '1') as b
> ON b.empno = a.empno ) as count_result
> -----------------------------
> or just create the view and use inner join then count :b
>
>
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