Andrew Dunstan <andrew.duns...@pgexperts.com> writes:
> One of my clients has an odd problem. Every so often a backend will 
> suddenly become very slow. The odd thing is that once this has happened 
> it remains slowed down, for all subsequent queries. Zone reclaim is off. 
> There is no IO or CPU spike, no checkpoint issues or stats timeouts, no 
> other symptom that we can see. The problem was a lot worse that it is 
> now, but two steps have alleviated it mostly, but not completely: much 
> less aggressive autovacuuming and reducing the maximum lifetime of 
> backends in the connection pooler to 30 minutes.

> It's got us rather puzzled. Has anyone seen anything like this?

Maybe the kernel is auto-nice'ing the process once it's accumulated X
amount of CPU time?

                        regards, tom lane


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