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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: wal_sync_methods for AIX
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:04:53 -0800
Message-ID: <20080215140453.4fafd9b1@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1959485A-0DC4-4EA3-864A-D40A7F8AA094@langille.org>
References: <1959485A-0DC4-4EA3-864A-D40A7F8AA094@langille.org>

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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:55:45 -0500
Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:

> Our tests have been on a p550 connected to DS6800 array using pgbench.
> 
> One nasty behaviour we have seen is long running commits. Initial  
> thoughts connected
> them with checkpoints, but the long running commits do not correlate  
> with checkpoints being
> written.  Have you seen this behaviour?

Are you sure? What makes you think this? Do you have a high level of
shared buffers? What are your bgwriter settings?

Joshua D. Drake




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