On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:23:08PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:02 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > say that checkpoints cause extra disk I/O. Is there a good way to > > > measure how much extra I/O (and WAL volume) is caused by the > > > checkpoints? Also, it would be good to know how much total I/O is caused > > > by a checkpoint so that I know if bgwriter is doing it's job. > > > > There's a patch someone just came up with that provides additional debug > > info about both bgwriter operation and checkpoints. I know it will at > > least tell you how much was written out by a checkpoint. > > Excellent, that would answer a lot of my questions. I did some brief > searching and nothing turned up. Do you have a link to the discussion or > the patch? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01083.php -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
