On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am configuring streaming replication with hot standby > with PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on RHEL 6 (kernel 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64). > PostgreSQL was compiled from source. > > It works fine, except that starting the standby took for ever: > it took the system more than 80 minutes to replay 48 WAL files > and connect to the primary. > > Can anybody think of an explanation why it takes that long? Could the slow log files be replaying into randomly scattered pages which are not yet in RAM? Do you have sar or vmstat reports? Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
