[SOLVED] Postgres using a lot of CPU since update (retrolemmy.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: It seems to have been fixed thanks to @[email protected]. Running analyze verbose; in postgres.

After updating to 0.19.5 from 0.19.3 my postgres is often using up 500%+ of CPU according to docker stats and often going to 100% CPU on most cores according to htop. Also noticed in the uptime monitor:

htop shows one of the 5 postgres processes constantly on UPDATE. I think this might be part of the problem.

I'm not comfortable with postgres and am honestly completely in the dark how or where to mitigate or even pinpoint this issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Did you update postgres as well? 0.19.4 needs a newer version.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have. It's running postgres v16.3

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes after upgrades, even minor ones, I find it useful to run analyze on all of the tables. I usually do analyze verbose; so I can see which tables are getting analyzed. This will assess every table so the query planner can make better decisions about how to resolve queries. If the query planner is making bad decisions I/O and CPU will be high and query performance will be poor.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thanks. I ran it. Hopefully it'll make a difference.

Edit: It looks like this did the trick. I'll keep monitoring to see if it sticks. Thanks again!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You can use pg_stat_statements to find slow queries. Try sorting by top total_exec_time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

ERROR:  extension "pg_stats_statements" is not available

Even though it's added in the customPostgresql.conf shared_preload_libraries = 'auto_explain,pg_stat_statements'

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I know you already found a solution, but fwiw, it seems you have a typo in calling the extension. You have "stats" plural instead of "stat" singular.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well that would do it. Thanks for pointing out!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man, i just remembered cve-2024-3094 lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

commit "fixed stuff"

2.8k blob of crypto mining code

Would be hilarious

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Do you have any tweaks of pg settings? Eg. shm mem, shared_buffers etc. ?

If not you migh want to: https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have. And I tried to tweak it with no avail. But it was working within acceptable levels before the update.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

hmm, how many connections are used SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_activity; ?
I am not a master postgres admin but my intuition has been that the amount of connections is a big factor in how pg behaves with cpu and mem.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

ERROR:  extension "pg_stats_statements" is not available

Even though it's added in the customPostgresql.conf shared_preload_libraries = 'auto_explain,pg_stat_statements'

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

extension "pg_stats_statements" is not available

According to this https://stackoverflow.com/a/72966651/5881796

The extension is not loaded: CREATE EXTENSION pg_stat_statements;

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I added pg_stat_statements, and ran it. This was the result:

# SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_activity;
 count
-------
    11
(1 row)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

do you also have pict-rs connected to this postgres instance? that is surprisingly low number to me, I would have expected anywhere between 20-50 active connections (I use 50 for lemmy and 20 for pict-rs, configured in their respective conf files)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think so. I have lemmy and everything needed running through a single docker container using Lemmy-Easy-Deploy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah, you are using pretty different deployment then, even the used postgres image is different then the usual deployment ( pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:16-alpine instead of postgres:16-alpine) this might or might not cause differences.

I would try increasing POSTGRES_POOL_SIZE to 10-20, but I am guessing here, the idea being that lemmy is hammering postgres through the default 5 conns which increases CPU but that is a bit of stretch

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It thankfully seems to have been fixed thanks to @[email protected]. Running analyze verbose; in postgres.

The pgautoupgrade was added for the new version because this deployment is an all-in-one solution for running lemmy. And upgrading the databases turned out to be quite the effort until some user pointed the maintainer towards pgautoupgrade here.

I tried running lemmy before I found out about this, but this just makes it so much more convenient to run.

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