From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:16:49 +0100
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"Greg Smith" <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Ho Fat Tsang wrote:
>
>> I have tuned the checkpoint_timeout to 30 second which is ten times less than
>> default and the issue is still reproduced.
>
> Your problem looks exactly like a pause at every checkpoint, and I'm not
> sure what Richard was thinking when he suggested having them more often
> would improve things.
Having frequent checkpoints is bad for overall performance but should reduce
the severity of the checkpoint impact. I interpreted his comment as saying he
lowered it just as an experiment to test if it was checkpoint causing the
problems not as a permanent measure.
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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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