Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote: > Okay, now I'm done the updating as described above. I did the > postgres.conf changes. I did the kernel changes, i added two > SSD's in a software RAID1 where the pg_xlog is now located - > unfortunately the the picture is still the same :-( You said before that you were seeing high disk wait numbers. Now it is zero accourding to your disk utilization graph. That sounds like a change to me. > When the database is under "heavy" load, there is almost no > improvement to see in the performance compared to before the > changes. In client-visible response time and throughput, I assume, not resource usage numbers? > A lot of both read and writes takes more than a 1000 times as > long as they usually do, under "lighter" overall load. As an odd coincidence, you showed your max_connections setting to be 1000. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Number_Of_Database_Connections -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance