On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:10:54AM -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > This is a _really _low volume system, less than 500 writes/hour. Normal > operation sees checkpoint related spikes of around 200-300 milliseconds. > We always checkpoint at the checkpoint timeout (every 5 minutes). > During this one checkpoint, I'm seeing transactions running 2-3 seconds. > During this time, writes are < 5/minute. > What gives? pg_dump? Remember that it has special locks approximately equivalent (actually eq? I forget) with SERIALIZABLE mode, which makes things rather different. A -- Andrew Sullivan Old sigs will return after re-constitution of blue smoke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org