Re: io storm on checkpoints, postgresql 8.2.4, linux - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dmitry Potapov
Subject Re: io storm on checkpoints, postgresql 8.2.4, linux
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Msg-id 878c83960708220922n747c8485r30584d3ef793ec2e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: io storm on checkpoints, postgresql 8.2.4, linux  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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2007/8/22, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>:
>     We've run into an issue of IO storms on checkpoints. Once in 20min
> (which is checkpoint_interval) the database becomes unresponsive for about
> 4-8 seconds. Query processing is suspended, server does nothing but writing

What are your background writer settings?


bgwriter_delay=100ms
bgwriter_lru_percent=20.0
bgwriter_lru_maxpages=100
bgwriter_all_percent=3
bgwriter_all_maxpages=600

In fact, with dirty_background_ratio > 0 bgwriter even make things a tiny bit worse.
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Regards,
            Dmitry

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