On Jan 27, 2008 4:08 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > More segments means more disk space taken up with them and a longer crash > recovery. Those are the downsides; if you can live with those there's no > reason to run at <100 if that works for you. Fine-tuning here isn't > really that helpful. > > I'm a little confused by your report through because you should still be > seeing regular checkpoint warnings if you set checkpoint_warning = 3600s , > they should just be spaced further apart. I'm not seeing any warnings at all. [idb01 ~]$ sudo cat /data/logs/pgsql-27.log | grep -i check [idb01 ~]$ sudo cat /data/logs/pgsql-26.log | grep -i check [idb01 ~]$ sudo cat /data/logs/pgsql-25.log | grep -i check [idb01 ~]$ sudo cat /data/logs/pgsql-24.log | grep -i check 2008-01-24 03:54:39 PST LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (89 seconds apart) 2008-01-24 03:54:39 PST HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments". 2008-01-24 07:26:25 PST LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (106 seconds apart) 2008-01-24 07:26:25 PST HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments". 2008-01-24 11:34:18 PST LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (173 seconds apart) 2008-01-24 11:34:18 PST HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments". Segment config still: # - Checkpoints - checkpoint_segments = 100 # bumped from 50 checkpoint_timeout = 300 # range 30s-1h #checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 is off checkpoint_warning = 3600s # 0 is off No warnings in my logs, I see some LOG information but it pertains to slon and not postgres directly. Ideas?! Thanks again Tory ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate