On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Tory M Blue <tmblue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay ladies and gents and the rest of you :) > > It's time I dig into another issue, and that's a curious 5 second > delay on connect, on occasion. Now, I believe the network to be sound > and there are zero errors on any servers, no retrans, no runts, nada > nada nada. However I will continue to run tests with/without dns, > tcpdumps, tracking communications, handshakes, however. > > I've been doing some reading and what did I find. I found "Checkpoints > are very disrupting to your database performance and can cause > connections to stall for up to a few seconds while they occur." Quick added note, sorry. "checkpoint_completion_target (floating point) Specifies the target length of checkpoints, as a fraction of the checkpoint interval. The default is 0.5. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line. " interesting that it's a .5 second default setting and I'm seeing exactly that .5 second delay. Again could be reaching here! Thanks for putting up with me Tory -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance