Hi, There is an article about "Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query" (http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=11) that explains how to use the setpriority() to lower PostgreSQL processes. I?m wondering how much effective it would be for i/o bound systems. Will the setpriority() system call affect i/o queue too? Reimer > -----Mensagem original----- > De: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxx] > Enviada em: domingo, 26 de novembro de 2006 22:52 > Para: Brad Nicholson > Cc: carlos.reimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Assunto: Re: [PERFORM] Priority to a mission critical transaction > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:40:15PM -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:43 -0200, Carlos H. Reimer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have an application that is mission critical, normally very fast, > > > but when an I/O or CPU bound transaction appears, the mission critical > > > application suffers. Is there a way go give some kind of priority to > > > this kind of application? > > > Reimer > > > > > > Not that I'm aware of. Depending on what the problems transactions are, > > setting up a replica on a separate machine and running those > > transactions against the replica might be the solution. > > The BizGres project has been working on resource quotas, which might > eventually evolve to what you're looking for. > -- > Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) > >