Hunter Hillegas wrote:
> I have recently seen my 'postmaster' processes sucking up a lot of CPU.
>
> What can I do to determine why they have started eating the processors?
>
> I am running 7.4.2 on Red Hat Enterprise 2.1.
I had the same behaviour if I didn't reindex the tables at least one in a
week. You are using the 7.4 so it's enough vacuum the db, do you use the
pg_autovacuum daemon ?
Regards
Gaetano Mendola