On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:19 -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:12 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Nicholson wrote: > > > I'd be curious to see how you've got your background writer configured to > > see if it matches situations like this I've seen in the past. The > > parameters controlling the all scan are the ones you'd might consider > > turning down, definately the percentage and possibly the maxpages as well. > > > bgwriter_delay = 50 # 10-10000 milliseconds between > rounds > bgwriter_lru_percent = 20.0 # 0-100% of LRU buffers > scanned/round > bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 300 # 0-1000 buffers max > written/round > bgwriter_all_percent = 20 # 0-100% of all buffers > scanned/round > bgwriter_all_maxpages = 600 # 0-1000 buffers max > written/round I should add, there are 6 back ends running on this disk array (different servers and different data partitions) with these bgwriter settings. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate