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Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructu...
Arm has a much looser memory model than x86 [1 for a comparison]. It's possible that the random hangs are due to a race condition in PG that doesn't show up in x86 because memory visibility doesn't require as much synchronization.
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https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/
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1: https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/