Re: Postgres 8.2 memory weirdness - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Postgres 8.2 memory weirdness
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0801251256540.4724@westnet.com
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In response to Re: Postgres 8.2 memory weirdness  ("Tory M Blue" <tmblue@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Postgres 8.2 memory weirdness
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Tory M Blue wrote:

> I doubled the checkpoint segments yesterday and have not seen any
> warnings. Will run with segments of 100 for a while and see how things
> look.. Anyway to make sure that there is not a number between 50 and
> 100 that makes more sense?

More segments means more disk space taken up with them and a longer crash
recovery.  Those are the downsides; if you can live with those there's no
reason to run at <100 if that works for you.  Fine-tuning here isn't
really that helpful.

I'm a little confused by your report through because you should still be
seeing regular checkpoint warnings if you set checkpoint_warning = 3600s ,
they should just be spaced further apart.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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