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Runaway CPU investigation for postgres: socket churn at unresolved offset in libc-2.31.so

postgres is stuck in a likely socket churn loop: 5.58% of sampled CPU passed through unresolved offset, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f66a2df719a in select () from target:<path>.

highscore: 106reports: 1

Last seen: 2026-10-02 18:22 UTC. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f8e36-ec1d-76d3-b8ef-a76be89f2c5a

Technical snapshot

This is the clearest retained userspace thread cluster Fixer captured while the process was spinning.

Representative thread backtrace

  • Command: /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/15/main -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/15/main/postgresql.conf
  • Why Fixer classified it this way: The trace is dominated by socket syscalls, which suggests the process is rapidly retrying or churning through network or IPC work.
  • Thread summary: thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f66a2df719a in select () from target:<path>
  • Contention signals: gdb-stderr: gdb: warning: Couldn't determine a path for the index cache directory. warning: Target and debugger are in different PID namespaces; thread lists and other data are likely unreliable. Connect to gdbserver inside the container. warning: Expected absolute pathname for libpthread in the inferior, but got target:<path> warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.
  • Repeated loop: read -> read -> read
  • Top syscalls: read x2083, openat x1067, lseek x891, mmap x867
  • Kernel: 7.1.8+deb14.1-amd64
  • Distribution: debian
0x00007f66a2df719a in select () from target:<path>
0x0000556bf73fad06 in ?? ()
0x0000556bf73fc794 in PostmasterMain ()
0x0000556bf7167df5 in main ()

Possible duplicates

These are suggestions based on sanitized trigram similarity plus structured fields like package, subsystem, classification, and wait site. They are not auto-merged.

postgres is stuck in a likely socket churn loop: 1.90% of sampled CPU passed through unresolved offset, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f1303299687 in __GI__IO_flush_all () from target:<path>.

highscore: 106reports: 1similarity: 99%

Why this looks related: same classification, same subsystem, same target

Last seen: 2026-10-19 03:26 UTC. Public page: /issues/019f7962-c828-7c50-8189-f439a8864601. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f7962-c828-7c50-8189-f439a8864601

postgres is stuck in a likely socket churn loop: 1.46% of sampled CPU passed through next_uptodate_folio, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f82fc478687 in __GI__IO_flush_all () from target:<path>.

highpackage: postgresql-18source: linuxscore: 106reports: 1similarity: 80%

Why this looks related: same classification, same subsystem, same target

Last seen: 2026-10-16 07:15 UTC. Public page: /issues/019f777c-b6c6-73c1-9b2a-9e06e91c6ca9. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f777c-b6c6-73c1-9b2a-9e06e91c6ca9

postgres is stuck in a likely socket churn loop: 3.49% of sampled CPU passed through _dl_map_new_object, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f912645c687 in __GI__IO_flush_all () from target:<path>.

highpackage: postgresql-18source: postgresql-18score: 106reports: 1similarity: 79%

Why this looks related: same classification, same subsystem, same target

Last seen: 2026-10-17 07:40 UTC. Public page: /issues/019f9db1-7511-7382-938c-68a2e3e906c8. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f9db1-7511-7382-938c-68a2e3e906c8

postgres is stuck in a likely file not found retry loop: 3.98% of sampled CPU passed through unresolved offset, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f7805be2687 in __GI__IO_flush_all () from target:<path>.

highscore: 106reports: 1similarity: 79%

Why this looks related: same subsystem, same target, same wait site

Last seen: 2026-10-13 06:22 UTC. Public page: /issues/019f77a0-05cc-7ca2-84d1-d756b2e2db54. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f77a0-05cc-7ca2-84d1-d756b2e2db54

postgres is stuck in a likely socket churn loop: 3.62% of sampled CPU passed through hash_search_with_hash_value, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f1f311da687 in __GI__IO_flush_all () from target:<path>.

highpackage: postgresql-14source: postgresql-14score: 106reports: 1similarity: 77%

Why this looks related: same classification, same subsystem, same target

Last seen: 2026-10-21 04:00 UTC. Public page: /issues/019d8b2f-863a-7af0-92eb-7ce77dd04988. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019d8b2f-863a-7af0-92eb-7ce77dd04988

postgres is stuck in a likely busy poll loop: 9.57% of sampled CPU passed through sqlite3VdbeExec, with repeated thread backtraces show 1 thread(s) around 0x00007f3dd70ac60d in select () from target:<path>.

highscore: 106reports: 1similarity: 68%

Why this looks related: same subsystem, same target, same wait site

Last seen: 2026-10-02 18:03 UTC. Public page: /issues/019f9de5-ae93-70a0-b43c-cc5fcfe33721. Public JSON: /v1/issues/019f9de5-ae93-70a0-b43c-cc5fcfe33721

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