On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Ho Fat Tsang wrote:
I noticed that for each time the pgsql slow down, there is a short period a process called "pdflush" eating up lot of I/O. I've goolgled and know it is a process for writing dirty pages back to the disk by the Linux kernel.
The pdflush documentation is really spread out, you may find my paper at http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm a good place to start looking into that.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
