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If I don't include WAL files as part of my backup, I do not run into this issue. But a backup without WAL files is not what I want.
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From: Aggarwal, Ajay
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:46 PM
To: Haribabu Kommi
Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  replication timeout in pg_basebackup

I have already tried experimenting with linux dirty_ratio etc. You can only fine tune up to a limit. The backup process still fills up the buffer cache very quickly. Yes, my database is about 5-6 GB in size and will grow bigger over time.

If wish there was a way to slow down pg_basebackup or force it to use direct I/O.
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From: Haribabu Kommi [kommi.haribabu@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 8:31 PM
To: Aggarwal, Ajay
Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  replication timeout in pg_basebackup

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Aggarwal, Ajay <aaggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Hari Babu.
>
> I think what is happening is that my dirty cache builds up quickly for the
> volume where I am backing up. This would trigger flush of these dirty pages
> to the disk. While this flush is going on pg_basebackup tries to do fsync()
> on a received WAL file and gets blocked.

But the sync is executed for every WAL file finish. Does your database
is big in size?
Does your setup is write-heavy operations?

In Linux when it tries to write a bunch of buffers at once, the fysnc
call might block for some time.
In the following link there are some "Tuning Recommendations for
write-heavy operations" which might be useful to you.

http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm

Any other ideas to handle these kind of problems?

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia


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