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Disc write activity timeline looks like the following:

CHECKPOINT ->
Large disc write (30-40M/s), 1 second ->
4-5 seconds: no read and write activity at all, but server works slow ->
2-3 seconds: disc write activity about 4-5 M/s ->
restore normal speed


On 3/28/07, Dmitry Koterov <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
New information.

When I run CHECKPOINT manually in psql console, effect is fully reproduced.
So - it is a checkpoint slowdown.

The quesion is - how to make CHECKPOINT work faster?


On 3/27/07, Dmitry Koterov <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How to tune them?

Now I have:

checkpoint_segments = 5         # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each
checkpoint_timeout = 900        # range 30-3600, in seconds
checkpoint_warning = 30         # in seconds, 0 is off

No checkpoint warnings in pgsql logs.



On 3/27/07, Oleg Bartunov < oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hmm,

looks like checkpoint ?
Check checkpoint settings in postgresql.conf.


Oleg
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Dmitry Koterov wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have found that sometimes heavy loaded PostgreSQL begins to run all the
> queries slower than usual, sometimes - 5 and more times slower. I cannot
> reprocude that, but symptoms are the following: queries work very fast for
> 5-10 minutes, and after that - significant slowdown (every query, even a
> simple one, works 5-10 and ever more times slower), disk write activity
> grows too (but not everytime - I don't know exactli if there is a direct
> correlation). 2-3 seconds, then - performance restores back to normal.
>
> Autovacuum is turned off.
>
> Machine has 2 processors, huge memory, fast SCSI disks.
>
> I understand that there is too less information. Please advice what to
> monitor for better problem discovering.
>

        Regards,
                Oleg
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