Chris, On 4/5/06 2:31 PM, "Chris Mair" <list@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doing what http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jkshah suggests: > wal_sync_method = fsync (unchanged) > wal_buffers = 128 (was 8) > checkpoint_segments = 128 (was 3) > bgwriter_all_percent = 0 (was 0.333) > bgwriter_all_maxpages = 0 (was 5) > and leaving everything else default (solarispackages from pgfoundry) > increased performance ~ 7 times! In the recent past, Jignesh Shaw of Sun MDE discovered that changing the bgwriter_* parameters to zero had a dramatic positive impact on performance. There are also some critical UFS kernel tuning parameters to set, you should find those in his blog. We found and fixed some libpq issues with Solaris that were also critical - they should be in 8.1.3 I think. - Luke
