Re: long checkpoint_timeout - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: long checkpoint_timeout
Date
Msg-id 20070223223456.GB11743@nasby.net
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In response to Re: long checkpoint_timeout  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:23:08PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:02 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > say that checkpoints cause extra disk I/O. Is there a good way to
> > > measure how much extra I/O (and WAL volume) is caused by the
> > > checkpoints? Also, it would be good to know how much total I/O is caused
> > > by a checkpoint so that I know if bgwriter is doing it's job.
> >
> > There's a patch someone just came up with that provides additional debug
> > info about both bgwriter operation and checkpoints. I know it will at
> > least tell you how much was written out by a checkpoint.
>
> Excellent, that would answer a lot of my questions. I did some brief
> searching and nothing turned up. Do you have a link to the discussion or
> the patch?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01083.php
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