Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database?
Date
Msg-id 370.1078877805@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to syslog slowing the database?  (Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg@cranel.com>)
Responses Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database?  ("Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>)
Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database?  (Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg@cranel.com>)
Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database?  ("Magnus Naeslund(t)" <mag@fbab.net>)
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Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegelberg@cranel.com> writes:
> I turned syslog back on and the restore slowed down again.  Turned
> it off and it sped right back up.

We have heard reports before of syslog being quite slow.  What platform
are you on exactly?  Does Richard's suggestion of turning off syslog's
fsync help?

            regards, tom lane

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