Hello all, Iam running a postgresql 9.0.13 master/slave instance in a write heavy workload. The hardware is a Dell 720, E5530 - 8 core, 128GB RAM. The database (around 250g with indexes/bloat etc) is sitting on flashcache device with 2 fusion- io PCIe MLC SSDs as frontend and a MD3200 based RAID10 (14*1TB SATA disks) as backend. OS is centos 6.2 with kernel 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64. Currently, the performance related configuration is mostly default i,e shared_buffers, effective_cache_size. The only directive that seems different is checkpoint_segments = 96 Iam moving to postgresql 9.3 shortly and planning to tune the above directives as below.. effective_cache_size = 100GB # free+buffers is pretty consistent around 110 to 120GB and pg_oscache_total is around 80GB consistently checkpoint_segments = 32 # 96 seems to long and all flushes seem to be only due to checkpoint_timeout Additionally iam turning off THB defrag as suggested by some posts on the lists. Though, My initial pgbench testing doesn't seem to indicate any issues with THB defrag turned on/off. Iam not sure about shared_buffers and wal_buffers - iam inclined to leave them to defaults. But based on this article (http://rhaas.blogspot.in/2012/03/tuning-sharedbuffers-and-walbuffers.html) it looks there will be some advantages in tuning it What would be a good value for shared_buffers and wal_buffers ? Please let me know if additional information will help. TIA dushy -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
