Re: checkpoint_timeout - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Rafael Domiciano
Subject Re: checkpoint_timeout
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Msg-id 3a0028490810080531y155edffi7ff7c68b965a834a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: checkpoint_timeout  (chirag.dave@gmail.com)
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The server is running Postgres 8.2.4
When the server is doing too much operations like I, U or D the postgres stop a while each 5 min...!
I mean "stopping" that I don't receive any response from postgres, and the process the all people are running stay there, waiting for something.
I read a several names to it like: gap, stall, slowdown... I don't know the write expression for this situation.

I hope you can help me.

Thnks,

Rafael Domiciano
Postgres DBA

2008/10/7 <chirag.dave@gmail.com>
What version of postgres are you running ?  and please also provide more information about your suspected slowdown ?





On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Rafael Domiciano <rafael.domiciano@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello there,

I'm having some slowndowns in my postgresql server, and I had been reading something about checkpoints, that could resolve my problem.
Now, I have:
checkpoint_segments = 30                # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each
#checkpoint_timeout = 5min 

And I percebed that this slowndown is occuring for 5 min...! So I'm suposing that the problem is in the checkpoint_timeout.

What's the impact to chang it to:
checkpoint_timeout = 2min or
checkpoint_timeout = 5min

Tnhks,

Rafael Domiciano


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