Re: buffercache/bgwriter - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Uwe Bartels
Subject Re: buffercache/bgwriter
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In response to Re: buffercache/bgwriter  (Jochen Erwied <jochen@pgsql-performance.erwied.eu>)
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Hi Jochen,

yes, I had that impression too.
But it is running. ...And has almost no effect. I changed all parameter to the most aggressive, but....
Before I restarted the server I had a percentage of writes by the bgwriter of less that 1 percent.

postgres=# select name,setting from pg_settings where name like 'bgw%';
          name           | setting
-------------------------+---------
 bgwriter_delay          | 10
 bgwriter_lru_maxpages   | 1000
 bgwriter_lru_multiplier | 10

Best...
Uwe

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On 23 March 2011 14:19, Jochen Erwied <jochen@pgsql-performance.erwied.eu> wrote:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 1:51:31 PM you wrote:

[rearranged for quoting]

> background writer stats
>  checkpoints_timed | checkpoints_req | buffers_checkpoint | buffers_clean |
> maxwritten_clean | buffers_backend | buffers_alloc
> -------------------+-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------+-----------------+---------------
>                  3 |               0 |              99754 |             0
> |                0 |          115307 |        246173
> (1 row)

buffers_clean = 0 ?!

> But I don't understand how postgres is unable to fetch a free buffer.
> Does any body have an idea?

Somehow looks like the bgwriter is completely disabled. How are the
relevant settings in your postgresql.conf?


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