Re: Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp
Date
Msg-id 16415.1196727036@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
Responses Re: Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp
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Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
> 8.2.5 on Solaris 10.  Before we upgraded to 8.2.4 it was doing about
> 65 Mbs/sec.  Interestingly, a while back we were running with the
> data directory mounted with forcedirectio and saw none of this, I'm
> guessing that fsync calls would have something to do with that?

Hmm ... no, because the stats file never gets fsync'd.  I should think
that forcedirectio would have made things worse.

            regards, tom lane

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