Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down
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Msg-id 46836B66.7050109@archonet.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down  ("Ho Fat Tsang" <namiwf@gmail.com>)
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Ho Fat Tsang wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
>   I have tuned the checkpoint_timeout to 30 second which is ten times less
> than default and the issue is still reproduced. Do you have any recommended
> configuration for WAL ?

If you look at the output of "vmstat 10" and "iostat -m 10" (I'm
assuming you're on Linux) does it show your I/O peaking every three
minutes? I might have been wrong about the cause.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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