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Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-01-13T23:21:31Z
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On 2015-01-13 15:17:15 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> I'm inclined to think that this is a livelock, and so the problem
> isn't evident from the structure of the B-Tree, but it can't hurt to
> check.

My guess is rather that it's contention on the freelist lock via
StrategyGetBuffer's. I've seen profiles like this due to exactly that
before - and it fits to parallel loading quite well.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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