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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Ho Fat Tsang <namiwf@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:03:50 +0100
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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.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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