Re: Checkpoint segments too small - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Checkpoint segments too small
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Msg-id 20070806103424.GD24616@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Checkpoint segments too small  (Henrik Zagerholm <henke@mac.se>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:26:18AM +0200, Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running 8.2.4 and I've started to get these messages and even
> though I googled for some answers I couldn't find any good info
> against the 8.2 code base.
>
> 2007-08-05 04:00:58.815 CEST  LOG:  checkpoints are occurring too
> frequently (17 seconds apart)
> 2007-08-05 04:00:58.815 CEST  HINT:  Consider increasing the
> configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments".
>
> Right now I use the default setting.
>
> Is there any idea of raising these at all if I can't move them to a
> separate disk?

Yes. Just make sure you have enough diskspace for them before you do it.

//Magnus

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