On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:58 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > >> Anyone seen anything like this before? > >> > > > > it is the expected behavior, IIRC > > OK. It just seems kind of pathological for stats file writing to be 10X > the volume of data writing. I see why it's happening, but I think it's > something we should fix. I don't think it is expected. As I recall, it is something we fixed a couple of major versions back (8.2?). It used to be that stats would write every 500ms. We changed that to when they are asked for (via a select from the table or something). Specifically because it could cause this type of problem. Am I thinking of something else? I remember going back and forth with tgl about this, tgl? JD > > -- > -- Josh Berkus > PostgreSQL Experts Inc. > http://www.pgexperts.com > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance