Re: timeouts connecting to pgsql database

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Derrick Lobo <derrick%givex.com@localhost> wrote:
>Not sure if anyone else has experienced the below, postgres configs can be
>shared if needed, we have a few database servers running on 7.12 and 9
>
>We recently noticed some problems with timeouts on some postgres database
>servers. The machines don't appear to be heavily loaded, although they are
>being used steadily. What we're seeing is that the machine is working fine. No
>swapping, load average is below 1, and then it doesn't accept database
>connections for about 10-20 seconds, and any queries on active connections
>fail to return for that same time period. I tried running these commands in a
>screen to get a better sense of the system state when the problem occurs: 

What filesystem options are you using for wherever the database files
are located ? Are you using wapbl(4) ?