Re: [GENERAL] PG quitting sporadically!! - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] PG quitting sporadically!!
Date
Msg-id 200802162114.m1GLEk209238@momjian.us
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bruce wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> >
> > > Suddenly, the postmaster either hogs up memory or just croaks and
> > > doesn't respond. The write process has become horribly slow.
> >
> > You should consider whether that's because a checkpoint is happening at
> > that point.  You didn't mention anything about your disk+controller
> > information to have an idea how likely that is.  Consider increasing
> > checkpoint_warning=3600 so that you'll always get a note in the logs when
> > a checkpoint happens; if those line up with your client disconnects that
> > will be telling you something.
>
> Oh, that is a creative use to get checkpoint_warning to log all
> checkpoints.  I have added a documentation mention about that.

Oh, we added log_checkpoint in 8.3 so there is no need to do that now
--- patch reverted.

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