Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:
> On a 8 processor system, my stats collector is always at 100% CPU.
> 8.3.5 on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64
Hmm. How many tables in the installation? Or perhaps more to the
point, how large is $PGDATA/global/pgstat.stat? It might be that
it's just spending too much time dumping out that file. There's
a fix for that planned for 8.4 ...
regards, tom lane