Himanshu Baweja <himanshubaweja@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> i am trying to optimise postgres 8 running on a system.... is there any way to know how wht should be the value of checkpoint_segments...
Enough so you usually aren't checkpointing more often than is specified
by checkpoint_timeout. If you do not know what your system's normal
consumption of WAL is, try setting checkpoint_warning to the same value
as checkpoint_timeout and then keep an eye on the postmaster log to see
how often it complains. You really really *don't* want the thing
checkpointing more often than once every five or ten or so minutes.
> increasing checkpoint_segments degrade the performace while checkpointing as it will have a whole lot of dirty buffers to write.....
This is a fundamental misconception --- the bgwriter exists to prevent that.
See the pgsql-performance archives for more information.
regards, tom lane
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