Richard Neill <rn214@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So far, I've set checkpoint_segments to 128, timeout to 10min, and > completion_target to 0.8. This helps, but not as much as I'd > hoped. > > But I haven't touched any of the other WAL or BG Writer settings. > > Where should I look next? On our web servers, where we had similar issues, we seem to be doing OK using: bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 1000 bgwriter_lru_multiplier = 4.0 The other thing which can help this problem is keeping shared_buffers smaller than most people recommend. We use 512MB on our larger web server and 256MB on other servers. (Be sure to test with your actual load, as this might or might not degrade overall performance.) -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance