Postgres locks do not scale

Global Health Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:48:53 GMT Moderate confidence — 56/100

On a normal day our Postgres database is at a cpu load of 20-40%.
Suddenly, for no discernible reason, our database was slammed at 100% CPU.

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On a normal day our Postgres database is at a cpu load of 20-40%.
Suddenly, for no discernible reason, our database was slammed at 100% CPU.

Sources: Recall