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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: High CPU usage / load average after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:14:10 -0800
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> Sounds to me like your IO system is stalling on fsyncs or something
> like that.  On machines with plenty of IO cranking up completion
> target usuall smooths things out. 

It certainly seems like it does.  However, I can't demonstrate the issue
using any simpler tool than pgbench ... even running four test_fsyncs in
parallel didn't show any issues, nor do standard FS testing tools.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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