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

From Brad Nicholson
Subject Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints
Date
Msg-id 1189706299.8624.43.camel@bnicholson-desktop
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In response to 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:
> Since you're probably not monitoring I/O waits and similar statistics on
> how the disk array's cache is being used, whether this is happening or not
> to you won't be obvious from what the operating system is reporting.


A sysadmin looked at cache usage on the disk array.  The read cache is
being used heavily, and the write cache is not.

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


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