"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:06:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Actually, the stats socket seems like a really good bet to me, since all >> the backends will be interested in the same socket. The >> client-to-backend sockets are only touched by two processes each, so >> don't seem like big contention sources.
> Do we take specific steps to ensure that we don't block when attempting > to write to these sockets? Well, we have the socket set to O_NONBLOCK mode. Whether that avoids the problem you're seeing ... > BTW, this server does have command string logging on, so if this is a > stats issue that probably made the problem worse. Can you turn that off for a bit and see if it affects things? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings