On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 11:07 +0800, James Pang wrote:
> we found sometimes , with many sessions running same query "select ..." at
> the same time, saw many sessions waiting on "LockManager". for example,
> pg_stat_activity show. It's a production server, so no enable trace_lwlocks
> flag. could you direct me what's the possible reason and how to reduce this
> "lockmanager" lock? all the sql statement are "select " ,no DML.
>
> time wait_event
> count(pid)
> 2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | DataFileRead | 42
> 2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | | 15
> 2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | LockManager | 31
> 2024-04-08 09:00:06.043996+00 | BufferMapping | 46
> 2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | LockManager | 43
> 2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | DataFileRead | 28
> 2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | ClientRead | 11
> 2024-04-08 09:00:07.114015+00 | | 11
That's quite obvious: too many connections cause internal contention in the
database.
Reduce the number of connections by using a reasonably sized connection pool.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
