Hi, we already used iostat and iotop during times of the slowdown, there is no sudden drop in I/O workload in the times of the slowdown. Also the iowait does not spike and stays as before. So i do not think that this is I/O related. As the disks are SSDs there also still is some "head room" left. Sebastian On 23.03.2012, at 05:48, Scott Marlowe wrote: > I'd suggest the handy troubleshooting tools sar, iostat, vmstat and iotop > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Sebastian Melchior <webmaster@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> yeah we log those, those times do not match the times of the slowdown at all. Seems to be unrelated. >> >> Sebastian >> >> >> On 23.03.2012, at 01:47, Stephen Frost wrote: >> >>> * Sebastian Melchior (webmaster@xxxxxxxx) wrote: >>>> Does anyone have any idea what could cause this issue or how we can further debug it? >>> >>> Are you logging checkpoints? If not, you should, if so, then see if >>> they correllate to the time of the slowdown..? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Stephen >> >> >> -- >> Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) >> To make changes to your subscription: >> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance > > > > -- > To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance