Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Brad Nicholson
Subject Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints
Date
Msg-id 1189700385.8624.32.camel@bnicholson-desktop
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In response to Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Responses Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints  (Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>)
Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:12 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Nicholson wrote:

> I'd be curious to see how you've got your background writer configured to
> see if it matches situations like this I've seen in the past.  The
> parameters controlling the all scan are the ones you'd might consider
> turning down, definately the percentage and possibly the maxpages as well.


bgwriter_delay = 50                     # 10-10000 milliseconds between
rounds
bgwriter_lru_percent = 20.0             # 0-100% of LRU buffers
scanned/round
bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 300             # 0-1000 buffers max
written/round
bgwriter_all_percent = 20               # 0-100% of all buffers
scanned/round
bgwriter_all_maxpages = 600             # 0-1000 buffers max
written/round


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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.


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