Hi,

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> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailtogsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:11 PM
> To: Jan de Visser
> Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Hanging queries on dual CPU windows
>
>
> Jan de Visser <jdevisser@digitalfairway.com> writes:
> > Furtermore, it does not happen on Linux machines, both
> single CPU and dual
> > CPU, nor on single CPU windows machines. We can only
> reproduce on a dual CPU
> > windows machine, and if we take one CPU out, it does not happen.
> > ...
> > Which showed me that several transactions where waiting for
> a particular row
> > which was locked by another transaction. This transaction
> had no pending
> > locks (so no deadlock), but just does not complete and hence never
> > relinquishes the lock.
>
> Is the stuck transaction still consuming CPU time, or just stopped?
>
> Is it possible to get a stack trace from the stuck process? I dunno
> if you've got anything gdb-equivalent under Windows, but that's the
> first thing I'd be interested in ...

Debugging Tools for Windows from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtoo...nstallx86.mspx

Additinonally you need a symbol-file or you use
"SRV*c:\debug\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"
to load the symbol-file dynamically from the net.

Best regards

>
> regards, tom lane
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